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Ananda Dassanayake

Sri Lankan politician (1920-2012)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ16019352 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ananda Dassanayake (16 April 1920 – 9 August 2012) was a Sri Lankan politician belonging to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He was the governor of Uva Province and Southern Province of Sri Lanka. He was a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament for 17 years.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ananda Dassanayake” as sri Lankan politician (1920-2012). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ananda, Dassanayake and Lankan.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1920-04-16. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ananda, Dassanayake and Lankan providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16019352. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1920 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ananda Dassanayake” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.