Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected the modern world’s first female head of government in 1960, when she became the prime minister of Sri Lanka, or Ceylon as it was known then.
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She entered politics after the assassination of her husband just a year earlier.
Her daughter, Sunethra Bandaranaike tells Witness History about her mother’s ground-breaking political achievement.
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