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| {{no footnotes|date=September 2010}}{{Infobox official post
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| | post = High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India
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| | incumbent = [[Milinda Moragoda]]
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| | incumbentsince = 2020
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| | first = Sir [[Don Baron Jayatilaka|Baron Jayatilaka]] | |
| | formation = 1942
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| 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.
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| 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]].
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| ==Representatives of the Government of Ceylon==
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| |[[Sir]] [[Don Baron Jayatilaka|Baron Jayathilake]]||1942||1945
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| |[[Sir]] [[Tikiri Bandara Panabokke II|Tikiri Bandara Panabokke]] [[Adigar]]||1945||1946
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| |[[Manikku Wadumestri Hendrick de Silva|M.W.H de Silva]]||1947||1948
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| ==High Commissioners==
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| !High Commissioner!!Start of Term!!End of Term
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| |[[Sir]] [[Arunachalam Mahadeva]], {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}||1948||1950
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| |[[C. Coomaraswamy]]||1950||1955
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| |[[Sir]] [[Edwin Wijeratne]]||1955||1957
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| |[[Sir]] [[Richard Aluwihare]], {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCMG}}, [[CBE]]||1957||1963
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| |[[Shirley Amerasinghe]]||1963||1966
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| |[[Siri Perera]]||1967||1969
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| |[[N. Q. Dias]]||1970||1972
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| |Justin Siriwardena||1974||1977
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| |[[Arthur Basnayake]]||1977||1978
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| |[[Theodore Braybrooke Panabokke|T.B.Panabokke]]||1978||1982
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| |[[Bernard Tilakaratna]]||1982||1989
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| |Dr [[Stanley Kalpage]]||1989||1991
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| |[[Doctor (title)|Dr]] [[Neville Kanakeratne]]||1991||1994
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| |[[Mangala Moonesinghe]]||1995||2000
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| |Dr Senake Bandaranayake||2000||2002
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| |[[Mangala Moonesinghe]]||2002||2005
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| |C. R. Jaysinghe||2005||2009
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| |[[Prasad Kariyawasam]]||2009|| 2014
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| |Sudarshana Senavirathne||2014||2015
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| |[[Esala Weerakoon]] ||2015||2018
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| |[[Austin Fernando]] ||2018||2020
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| |[[Milinda Moragoda]] ||2020||Present
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| ==See also==
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| *[[List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka]]
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| ==References==
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| *[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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| {{reflist}}
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| {{Ambassadors of Sri Lanka}}
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| [[Category:Lists of ambassadors to India]]
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| [[Category:High Commissioners of Sri Lanka to India| ]]
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| [[Category:Lists of ambassadors of Sri Lanka|India]]
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