ceylon

Ceylon attained dominion status in 1948 and became the Republic of Sri Lanka in 1972. Now most commonwealth states that became republics did so within a few years of their independence, very few waited more than a decade before making the switch. Ceylon's 24 years make it the third longest...

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, active in Sri Lanka since British Dominion times, has a lengthy history, and is notable for being one of the few parties in the "third world" of mass appeal who openly praised Soviet dissident figure Leon Trotsky. For most of their history, they were even larger than...

Have Denmark or Denmark-Norway controll Ceylon. Ceylon is today know as Sri Lanka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka Edit: (added) Some links related to Danish activity in the region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_East_India_Company

The Portuguese at one point controlled Sri Lanka for a while, then they lost the colony due to Dutch Invasions which was turned into a Dutch Colony, what would happen if Portugal managed to keep the colony from invaders like the Dutch? Would we have a Portuguese speaking island country like...