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Philip Gunawardena

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Don Philip Rupasinghe Gunawardena (11 January 1901 – 26 March 1972) was a Sri Lankan politician. He introduced Trotskyism to Sri Lanka. He studied in the United States and picked up liberal ideas there.[1]

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  1. Charles Wesley Ervin, Tomorrow is Ours: the Trotskyist Movement in India and Ceylon, 1935-48, Colombo: Social Scientists Association, 2006