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- Obeyesekere_Walawa abstract "Obeyesekere Walawa aka Maligawa (Sinhalese: Palace) is a large bungalow (as mansions are referred to locally) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A stately home modeled on Neoclassical style, it was used as a town house by the Obeyesekere family, even thou at its construction it was situated in the area of Cinnamon Gardens a suburb of Colombo, now part of Greater Colombo Area.Built in the 1920s with large gardens and extravagant interior firings, by the wealthy and powerful Obeyesekere family, headed by Sir James Peter Obeyesekere II, Kt, MA who was the First Mudaliyar highest post for a Ceylonese in the British Colonial Administration of Ceylon at the time.In 1939, Sir James on request of the Royal College Colombo, granted the house with its furniture for the use of the school as a hostel after the school attempted to reestablish a hostel after absence of one for students from out station for several years. However in December 1941 with the out break of World War II in the far east, the Maligawa along with the Royal College premise was taken over by the British Army. As the school was turned in to a military hospital, the Maligawa soon became the officer's mess for the Royal Air Force that had covered the Colombo Race Course to an airfield.Several years after the war it was returned to the Obeyesekere family, and it became the home of Deshamanya J.P. Obeyesekere III former senator and minister of health & finance; his wife Siva Obeyesekere, a former minister of health. This historic ancestral house is now the subject of a court case in the district law courts of Colombo. This is due to Mr Dijen De Saram Senior Partner of the Colombo law firm DL & F De Saram fraudulently transferring this property to himself and his wife Mrs Chantal De Saram. In this and other instances Mr De Saram has seriously and knowingly misused his professional position as a lawyer. The court case continues.".
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- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageRevisionID "706160318".
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink British_Army.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Bungalow.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Category:Houses_in_Colombo.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Category:Royal_College,_Colombo.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Ceylonese_Mudaliyars.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Cinnamon_Gardens.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Colombo.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Colombo_Racecourse.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Deshamanya.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink English_country_house.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Hostel.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink James_Peter_Obeyesekere_II.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink James_Peter_Obeyesekere_III.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Knight_Bachelor.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Master_of_Arts.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Mess.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Neoclassical_architecture.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Air_Force.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Royal_College,_Colombo.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Sinhalese_language.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Sri_Lanka.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink Townhouse.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLinkText "Maligawa".
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wikiPageWikiLinkText "Obeyesekere Walawa".
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- Obeyesekere_Walawa subject Category:Houses_in_Colombo.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa subject Category:Royal_College,_Colombo.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa hypernym Bungalow.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa type Building.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa type School.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa type School.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa comment "Obeyesekere Walawa aka Maligawa (Sinhalese: Palace) is a large bungalow (as mansions are referred to locally) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.".
- Obeyesekere_Walawa label "Obeyesekere Walawa".
- Obeyesekere_Walawa sameAs Q7074903.
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- Obeyesekere_Walawa sameAs Q7074903.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa wasDerivedFrom Obeyesekere_Walawa?oldid=706160318.
- Obeyesekere_Walawa isPrimaryTopicOf Obeyesekere_Walawa.