CO 54 — Colonial Office and predecessors: Ceylon Original Correspondence (1700s–1955), and CO 537 supplementary

Colonial Office (UK) · The National Archives, Kew

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The principal TNA series for British administrative correspondence on Ceylon — CO 54 (correspondence) supplemented by CO 882 (printed papers), CO 323 (general), and the supplementary security/intelligence series CO 537. Combined with FCO 141 (the Hanslope migrated archives) these holdings are the documentary base for the British–Tamil Civic Repair archival-truth ask. TLTE does not allege general suppression — most material is open. The ask is for a consolidated, publicly-funded Ceylon-transfer-of-power finding aid comparable to the Kenya 2014 and Cyprus 2016 consolidations.

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