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Ceylon Civil Service, the Glossary

The Ceylon Civil Service, popularly known by its acronym CCS, was the premier civil service of the Government of Ceylon under British colonial rule and in the immediate post-independence period.^[1]

59 relations: Ananda W. P. Guruge, Arthur Ranasinghe, Bradman Weerakoon, British Ceylon, Bureaucracy, C. P. de Silva, C. Sittampalam, C.A. Coorey, Chief justice, Chief secretary (British Empire), Civil Service (United Kingdom), Colebrooke–Cameron Commission, Crown colony, Deshamanya, Donoughmore Constitution, Executive Council of Ceylon, Franklin Gimson, G.V.P. Samarasinghe, General Officer Commanding, Ceylon, General Register Office, Government Agent (Sri Lanka), Governors of British Ceylon, Gunasena de Soyza, Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, Harry Charles Purvis Bell, Herbert Tennekoon, James Alfred Corea, James Peiris, James Thorburn (colonial administrator), K. Alvapillai, Kanthiah Vaithianathan, Kingdom of Kandy, Legislative Council of Ceylon, Leonard Woolf, M. J. Perera, Magistrate, Magistrate's court (Sri Lanka), Malcolm Stevenson, Neville Jansz, Nissanka Wijeyeratne, P. G. Punchihewa, Permanent secretary, Philip Wodehouse (colonial administrator), Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Prematilaka Mapitigama, Richard Aluwihare, Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan, Robert Caesar Childers, Ronnie de Mel, Sarath Amunugama (politician), ... Expand index (9 more) »
Government of Sri Lanka

Ananda W. P. Guruge

Ananda Wahihana Palliya Guruge (28 December 1928 – 6 August 2014), known as Ananda W. P. Guruge, was a Sri Lankan diplomat, Buddhist scholar and writer. Ceylon Civil Service and Ananda W. P. Guruge are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Arthur Ranasinghe

Sir Arthur Godwin Ranasinha, CMG, CBE, CCS (24 June 1898 – 19 June 1976) was a Sri Lankan civil servant and statesmen. Ceylon Civil Service and Arthur Ranasinghe are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Bradman Weerakoon

Deshamanya Robin Bradman Weerakoon, CCS (born 20 October 1930) is a Sri Lankan civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and Bradman Weerakoon are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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British Ceylon

British Ceylon (Britānya Laṃkāva; Biritthāṉiya Ilaṅkai), officially British Settlements and Territories in the Island of Ceylon with its Dependencies from 1802 to 1833, then the Island of Ceylon and its Territories and Dependencies from 1833 to 1931 and finally the Island of Ceylon and its Dependencies from 1931 to 1948, was the British Crown colony of present-day Sri Lanka between 1796 and 4 February 1948.

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is a system of organization where decisions are made by a body of non-elected officials.

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C. P. de Silva

Charles Percival de Silva (16 April 1912 – 9 October 1972) was a Sri Lankan politician and civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and c. P. de Silva are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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C. Sittampalam

Cathiravelu Sittampalam (கதிரவேலு சிற்றம்பலம்; 13 September 1898 – 3 February 1964) was a Ceylon Tamil civil servant, politician, Member of Parliament and government minister. Ceylon Civil Service and c. Sittampalam are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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C.A. Coorey

Deshamanya Chandana Aelian Coorey, SLAS (March 18, 1921 -) was a Sri Lankan civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and C.A. Coorey are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Chief justice

The chief justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Ghana, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Supreme Court of the United States, and provincial or state supreme courts/high courts.

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Chief secretary (British Empire)

Chief secretary was the title of a senior civil servant in various colonies of the British Empire.

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Civil Service (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, which is led by a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Colebrooke–Cameron Commission

The Colebrooke–Cameron Commission was appointed in 1833 as a Royal Commission of Eastern Inquiry by the British Colonial Office to assess the administration of the island of Ceylon and to make recommendations for administrative, financial, economic, and judicial reform.

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Crown colony

A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire.

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Deshamanya

Deshamanya (translit; translit; Pride of the Nation) is the second-highest national honour of Sri Lanka awarded by the Government of Sri Lanka as a civil honour.

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Donoughmore Constitution

The Donoughmore Constitution (translit; translit), created by the Donoughmore Commission, served Sri Lanka (Ceylon) from 1931 to 1947 when it was replaced by the Soulbury Constitution.

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Executive Council of Ceylon

The Executive Council of Ceylon was the executive council created in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) by the British colonial administration on the recommendations of the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission along with the Legislative Council of Ceylon in March 1833. Ceylon Civil Service and executive Council of Ceylon are government of Sri Lanka.

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Franklin Gimson

Sir Franklin Charles Gimson (10 September 1890 – 13 February 1975) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1946 to 1952.

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G.V.P. Samarasinghe

G.V.P. Samarasinghe, CCS was a Sri Lankan civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and G.V.P. Samarasinghe are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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General Officer Commanding, Ceylon

General Officer Commanding, Ceylon (also known as Commander of Troops or Officer Commanding His/Her Majesties Troops, Ceylon) was the designation of the General Officer appointed to command all British Army units stationed in the island of Ceylon during the British colonial administration of the island.

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General Register Office

General Register Office or General Registry Office (GRO) is the name given to the civil registry in the United Kingdom, many other Commonwealth nations and Ireland.

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Government Agent (Sri Lanka)

A Government Agent (GA) or a District Secretary is a Sri Lankan civil servant of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service appointed by the central government to govern a certain district of the country.

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Governors of British Ceylon

The governor of Ceylon was the representative in Ceylon of the British Crown from 1795 to 1948.

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Gunasena de Soyza

Gunasena de Soyza, CMG, OBE (20 December 1902 – 12 October 1961) was a Sri Lankan civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and Gunasena de Soyza are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe

Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe, CCS (18 March 1913 – 4 December 1980) was a Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Harry Charles Purvis Bell

Harry Charles Purvis Bell, CCS (21 September 1851 – 6 September 1937), more often known as HCP Bell, was a British civil servant and the first Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon.

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Herbert Tennekoon

Herbert Ernest Tennekoon, CCS (30 September 1911 - 22 January 1979) was a Sri Lankan civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and Herbert Tennekoon are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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James Alfred Corea

Mohandiram James Alfred Corea (23 November 1871 - 11 July 1915) was a Ceylonese colonial-era headman.

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James Peiris

Sir James Peiris (20 December 1856 – 5 May 1930) was a prominent leader in the Sri Lankan independence movement, the first elected Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon and the first native Governor of Ceylon (Acting).

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James Thorburn (colonial administrator)

Sir James Jamieson Thorburn (1864 – 14 September 1929) was a British colonial administrator, Governor of the Gold Coast (today's Ghana) from 1910 to 1912.

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K. Alvapillai

Kovindapillai Alvapillai, OBE (23 November 1905 – 17 February 1979) was a leading Ceylon Tamil civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and K. Alvapillai are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Kanthiah Vaithianathan

Sir Kanthiah Vaithianathan CBE (1896–1965) (also spelt Vaidyanathan) was a Ceylonese civil servant, politician, Member of the Senate and Minister of Housing and Social Services. Ceylon Civil Service and Kanthiah Vaithianathan are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Kingdom of Kandy

The Kingdom of Kandy was a monarchy on the island of Sri Lanka, located in the central and eastern portion of the island.

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Legislative Council of Ceylon

The Legislative Council of Ceylon was the legislative body of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1833, along with the Executive Council of Ceylon, on the recommendations of the Colebrooke-Cameron Commission. Ceylon Civil Service and legislative Council of Ceylon are government of Sri Lanka.

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Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf (–) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant.

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M. J. Perera

Mapatunage James "M. Ceylon Civil Service and M. J. Perera are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Magistrate

The term magistrate is used in a variety of systems of governments and laws to refer to a civilian officer who administers the law.

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Magistrate's court (Sri Lanka)

The magistrate's courts in Sri Lanka is a lower court headed by a magistrate who is vested with original criminal jurisdiction.

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Malcolm Stevenson

Sir Malcolm Stevenson (15 March 1878 – 27 November 1927) was a British colonial administrator.

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Neville Jansz

Neville Joseph Louis Jansz, MBE, CCS was a Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat. Ceylon Civil Service and Neville Jansz are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Nissanka Wijeyeratne

Deshamanya Nissanka Parakrama Wijeyeratne (නිශ්ශංක පරාක්‍රම විජයරත්න.) (14 June 1924 – 7 January 2007), known as Nissanka Wijeyeratne, was a Sri Lankan politician, civil servant,. Ceylon Civil Service and Nissanka Wijeyeratne are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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P. G. Punchihewa

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Permanent secretary

A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant of a department or ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities.

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Philip Wodehouse (colonial administrator)

Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, (27 February 1811 – 25 October 1887), was a British colonial administrator.

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Ponnambalam Arunachalam

Ponnambalam Arunachalam (translit; 14 September 1853 – 9 January 1924) was a Ceylonese civil servant and a member of the Executive Council of Ceylon and Legislative Council of Ceylon. Ceylon Civil Service and Ponnambalam Arunachalam are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Prematilaka Mapitigama

Prematilaka Mapitigama, also known as K. W. M. P. Mapitigama, (7 January 1930 – 14 April 2012) (Sinhala: ප්‍රේමතිලක මාපිටිගම) was a senior Sri Lankan civil servant, author and a publisher. Ceylon Civil Service and Prematilaka Mapitigama are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Richard Aluwihare

Sir Richard Aluwihare, (23 May 1895 – 22 December 1976) was a Sri Lankan civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and Richard Aluwihare are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Richard Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan

Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset, 2nd Baron Raglan (24 May 1817 – 3 May 1884) was a British peer.

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Robert Caesar Childers

Robert Caesar Childers (183825 July 1876) was a British Orientalist and the compiler of the first PaliEnglish dictionary to be published.

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Ronnie de Mel

Ronald Joseph Godfrey de Mel (Sinhala: රොනි ද මැල්; 11 April 1925 – 27 February 2024) was a Sri Lankan civil servant and politician. Ceylon Civil Service and Ronnie de Mel are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Sarath Amunugama (politician)

Sarath Leelananda Bandara Amunugama (Sinhala:සරත් ලීලානන්ද බණඩාර අමුනුගම), MP, SLAS (born July 10, 1939) is a Sri Lankan politician and civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and Sarath Amunugama (politician) are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Secretariat (administrative office)

The secretariat of an international organization is the department that fulfils its central administrative or general secretary duties.

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Secretary of State for the Colonies

The secretary of state for the colonies or colonial secretary was the Cabinet of the United Kingdom's minister in charge of managing the British Empire.

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Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, of Kandy

Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet (6 June 1774 – 25 May 1824) was a British colonial administrator.

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Soulbury Commission

The Soulbury Commission (සෝල්බරි කොමිෂන් සභාව Solbari Komishan Sabhawa; சோல்பரி ஆணைக்குழு) was a prime instrument of constitutional reform in British Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) that succeeded the Donoughmore Commission.

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Sri Lanka Administrative Service

The Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා පරිපාලන සේවය; śrī laṁkā paripālana sēvaya) is the key administrative service of the Government of Sri Lanka, with civil servants working for both in the Central Government as well as in the provincial councils. Ceylon Civil Service and Sri Lanka Administrative Service are government of Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Walter Edward Davidson

Sir Walter Edward Davidson, (20 April 1859 – 16 September 1923) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat.

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Walter Terence Stace

Walter Terence Stace (17 November 1886 – 2 August 1967) was a British civil servant, educator, public philosopher and epistemologist, who wrote on Hegel, mysticism, and moral relativism.

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Walwin de Silva

Walwin Arnold de Silva, CCS was a Sri Lankan civil servant. Ceylon Civil Service and Walwin de Silva are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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Wilhelm Woutersz

Thelmuth Harris Wilhelm Woutersz (19 July 1939 - 16 November 2003) was a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka. Ceylon Civil Service and Wilhelm Woutersz are Sri Lankan civil servants.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon_Civil_Service

, Secretariat (administrative office), Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, of Kandy, Soulbury Commission, Sri Lanka Administrative Service, Walter Edward Davidson, Walter Terence Stace, Walwin de Silva, Wilhelm Woutersz.

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Government of Sri Lanka

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