BP Before Present Era
CHJ Ceylon Historical Journal
CJHSS Ceylon Journal of Historical and Social Studies
CLR Ceylon Literary Register
CAN Ceylon National Archives
CO Colonial Office, despatches series
CRO Commonwealth Relations Office, despatches series
DMK Dravida Munnethra Kazhagam
ESR Ethnic Studies Report
IESHR Indian Economic and Social History Review
IPKF Indian Peace Keeping Force
JCBRAS Journal of the Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society
JRAS (GB & I) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
JRAS SL Branch Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka Branch
JVP Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
KA Koloniale Archief, the Archives of the former VOC (q.v.) now at the General State Archives at The Hague.
LSSP Lanka Sama Samaja Party
MCS Modern Ceylon Studies
MEP Mahajana Eksath Peramuna
MP Member of Parliament
MSLS Modern Sri Lanka Studies
SLFP Sri Lanka Freedom Party
SLNA Sri Lanka National Archives
TULF Tamil United Liberation Front
UCHC I (I & II) The University of Ceylon, History of Ceylon, Vol. I, Parts I & II
UCHC III The University of Ceylon, History of Ceylon, Vol. III
UF United Front
ULF United Left Front
UPHSL II The University of Peradeniya, History of Sri Lanka, Vol. II
UCR University of Ceylon Review
UNP United National Party
VOC Vereenigde Oost-Indische Campagnie