Gammuladani, the Glossary
Gammuladani, Gammuladeni, or Grammuladani, Matara Divisional Secretariat is a former Sinhala term for a village headman in Sri Lanka.[1]
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6 relations: Arachchi, British Ceylon, Grama Niladhari, Sinhala language, Sri Lanka, Village head.
- Defunct government positions in Sri Lanka
- Native headmen of Ceylon
Arachchi
Arachchi (ආරච්චි) was a petty native headman in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during the colonial era. Gammuladani and Arachchi are native headmen of Ceylon.
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.
See Gammuladani and British Ceylon
Grama Niladhari
Grama Niladhari (village officers) (ග්රාම නිලධාරී) is a Sri Lankan public official appointed by the central government to carry out administrative duties in a grama niladhari division, which is a sub-unit of a divisional secretariat.
See Gammuladani and Grama Niladhari
Sinhala language
Sinhala (Sinhala: සිංහල), sometimes called Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million.
See Gammuladani and Sinhala language
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
Village head
A village head, village headman or village chief is the community leader of a village or a small town.
See Gammuladani and Village head
See also
Defunct government positions in Sri Lanka
- Ceylonese Mudaliyars
- Chief Secretary of Ceylon
- Financial Secretary of Ceylon
- Gammuladani
- Legal Secretary of Ceylon
- Maha Mudaliyar
- Muhandiram
- Native headmen of Ceylon
- Vidane
- Vidane Arachchi