Hector Abhayavardhana
Hector Abhayavardhana | |
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| Born | 5 January 1919 |
| Died | 22 September 2012 (aged 93)[1] |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Occupation | Theoretician |
Hector Abhayavardhana (5 January 1919 – 22 September 2012) was a
Bolshevik-Leninist Party of India, Ceylon and Burma.[1]
Early life
Abhayavardhana was born in
Anglican vicar - at a time when the Church of England
was the established church. His father was a government servant and a pillar of the establishment.
Abhayavardhana was educated at
Buddhist people. He and his fellow matriculation student were once posed the question 'Would you have been better off under your own king?' by their teacher, in response to which he began to ponder upon nationalism and British colonial
rule.
At fifteen he renounced
Colombo Law College
.
Abhayavardhana's first exposure to radical politics was the
Reginald Stubbs
, who sought the deportation and against whom this meeting was directed.
He organised the Mount Lavinia Debating Society, which invited such speakers as Dr. Colvin R. de Silva and J. R. Jayewardene.
Revolutionary
Abhayavardhana was recruited to the
Ranil Wickremasinghe
). He became part of the clandestine section of the LSSP that was established, in anticipation of its proscription, to work underground. After the party leaders were imprisoned and escaped to India he joined them in exile there (disguised as an Anglican priest) and worked in the Independence movement.
He became a member of the
Quit India Movement of the Congress Party
were considered to be seminal theoretical works. When the main LSSP leaders returned to Sri Lanka after the war, Abhayawardhana was among the Sama Samajists who remained in India.
Journalist
He worked on the fortnightly New Spark in
Hyderabad
editing Mankind before returning to New Delhi where he began the critical journal Maral.
Return to Sri Lanka
In 1959 Abhayavardhana married Kusala Fernando and returned to Sri Lanka in 1960.
Abhayavardhana is credited with formulating the classification of the
petty bourgeois party, which was the ideological and theoretical foundation of the LSSP Coalition with that party in 1964. After this, he promoted an alliance with the SLFP and the Communist Party, which finally emerged with the signing of the Common Programme of the United Front
in 1968.
Abhayavardhana started The Nation as an
Finance Minister. After the front broke up in 1975, he founded the Socialist Nation. He also served on the Educational Bureau of the LSSP and was a long-standing member of the Politburo
.
In August 1992 Abhayavardhana, along with
Vivienne Goonewardena and Bernard Soysa
was a guest of honour at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Quit India movement in New Delhi.
Works
- Hector Abhayavardhana, Selected Writings, Colombo, Social Scientists Association, 2001.
References
- ^ a b "The Last Relict Of A Gilded Age". Colombo Telegraph. 23 September 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-24.
External links
- 'Hector Abhayavardhana is 87 today : The wise elder of the Left, Daily News, 5 January 2006
- Jayantha Somasundaram, 'Hector Abhayavardhana: The Internationalist', Daily News, 5 January 2006
- Mention of Hector Abhayavardhana's death
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