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| post = High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India
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| incumbent = [[Milinda Moragoda]]
| incumbentsince = 2020
| first = Sir [[Don Baron Jayatilaka|Baron Jayatilaka]]
| formation = 1942
}}

The ''' High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to [[India]]''' is the [[Sri Lanka]]n [[Envoy (title)|envoy]] to India. Countries belonging to the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] typically exchange [[High Commissioner]]s, rather than [[Ambassador]]s. Though there are a few technical differences (for instance, whereas Ambassadors present their [[credential#Diplomacy|diplomatic credentials]] to the host country's [[head of state]], High Commissioners are accredited to the [[head of government]]), they are in practice one and the same office.

Prior to the establishment of formal diplomatic ties with India after Ceylon gained independence in 1948, the Government of [[British Ceylon]] maintained an official representative to the [[British Raj]] in India from 1942 to 1948. The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India is [[Dual accreditation|concurrently accredited]] as [[Ambassador]] to both [[Bhutan]] and [[Afghanistan]]. Sri Lanka also maintains two Consuls-Generals in [[Chennai]] and [[Mumbai]].

==Representatives of the Government of Ceylon==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Representative!!Start of Term!!End of Term
|-
|[[Sir]] [[Don Baron Jayatilaka|Baron Jayathilake]]||1942||1945
|-
|[[Sir]] [[Tikiri Bandara Panabokke II|Tikiri Bandara Panabokke]] [[Adigar]]||1945||1946
|-
|[[Manikku Wadumestri Hendrick de Silva|M.W.H de Silva]]||1947||1948
|}

==High Commissioners==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!High Commissioner!!Start of Term!!End of Term
|-
|[[Sir]] [[Arunachalam Mahadeva]], {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}||1948||1950
|-
|[[C. Coomaraswamy]]||1950||1955
|-
|[[Sir]] [[Edwin Wijeratne]]||1955||1957
|-
|[[Sir]] [[Richard Aluwihare]], {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}, [[CBE]]||1957||1963
|-
|[[Shirley Amerasinghe]]||1963||1966
|-
|[[Siri Perera]]||1967||1969
|-
|[[N. Q. Dias]]||1970||1972
|-
|Justin Siriwardena||1974||1977
|-
|[[Arthur Basnayake]]||1977||1978
|-
|[[Theodore Braybrooke Panabokke|T.B.Panabokke]]||1978||1982
|-
|[[Bernard Tilakaratna]]||1982||1989
|-
|Dr [[Stanley Kalpage]]||1989||1991
|-
|[[Doctor (title)|Dr]] [[Neville Kanakeratne]]||1991||1994
|-
|[[Mangala Moonesinghe]]||1995||2000
|-
|Dr Senake Bandaranayake||2000||2002
|-
|[[Mangala Moonesinghe]]||2002||2005
|-
|C. R. Jaysinghe||2005||2009
|-
|[[Prasad Kariyawasam]]||2009|| 2014
|-
|Sudarshana Senavirathne||2014||2015
|-
|[[Esala Weerakoon]] ||2015||2018
|-
|[[Austin Fernando]] ||2018||2020
|-
|[[Milinda Moragoda]] ||2020||Present
|}

==See also==
*[[List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka]]

==References==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110728031528/http://www.slhcindia.org/the-high-commissioner The High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India]
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{{Ambassadors of Sri Lanka}}

[[Category:Lists of ambassadors to India]]
[[Category:High Commissioners of Sri Lanka to India| ]]
[[Category:Lists of ambassadors of Sri Lanka|India]]

Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India - Revision history

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