Sinhala Maha Sabha
Sinhalese Great Assembly Sinhala Maha Sabha | |
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| Sinhala name | සිංහල මහා සභා |
| Tamil name | சிங்கள மகா சபை |
| Founder | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike |
| Founded | 1936 |
| Split from | United National Party (in 1951) |
| Merged into | United National Party (in 1946) |
| Succeeded by | Sri Lanka Freedom Party |
| Ideology | Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism |
The Sinhala Maha Sabha (Sinhala: සිංහල මහා සභා) was a political party in colonial-era Ceylon founded by S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in the mid-1930s to promote Sinhalese Buddhist culture and community interests. In 1946, it joined the United National Party, before leaving the coalition in 1951 to form the Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
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