(See: Caste Discrimination and Social Justice in Sri Lanka: An Overview by Prof. Kalinga Tudor Silva). In Sinhala society, Radala identified as a “born to rule”, Govigama ‘peasantry’, ‘Rodi’, to ...

That she was born to an aristocratic Radala family and brushed with politics as time went by is peripheral. The truth is that at the time of the 1960 elections, just 10 months after her husband’s ...