Report of the Commission on Constitutional Reform (Soulbury Commission) — Cmd. 6677

Viscount Soulbury (Chair), Sir Frederick Burrows, Sir Frederick Rees · HMSO London (1945)

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The Soulbury Constitution preserved customary personal laws (Thesawalamai, Kandyan, Muslim) into independent Ceylon. Anchors the 1947 retention claim — Thesawalamai survived independence by statute, not by political concession.

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