When did the country in which Ira Madiyama is set, leave the British Empire?
February 4, 1948
Title: Sri Lankan independence movement
Passage: The Sri Lankan independence movement was a peaceful political movement which aimed at achieving independence and self - rule for Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, from the British Empire. It was initiated around the turn of the 20th century and led mostly by the educated middle class. It succeeded when, on February 4, 1948, Ceylon was granted independence as the Dominion of Ceylon. Dominion status within the British Commonwealth was retained for the next 24 years until May 22, 1972 when it became a republic and was renamed the Republic of Sri Lanka.
Title: Ira Madiyama
Passage: "Ira Madiyama (August Sun)" is set in Sri Lanka during the mid-1990s and tells three simultaneous stories against the backdrop of the country's savage civil war (1983 – 2009).
Title: Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin
Passage: Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Ira Gershwin is a 1979 album by Rosemary Clooney, of songs with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
Sri Lankan independence movement Ira Madiyama