Prince Casinader

Prince Gunarasa Casinader (Tamil: பிரின்ஸ் குணராசா காசிநாதர்; 21 July 1926 – 12 December 2018) was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.

Hon.

Prince Casinader
பிரின்ஸ் காசிநாதர்
Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka
In office
1989–1994
ConstituencyBatticaloa District
Personal details
Born(1926-07-21)21 July 1926
Batticaloa, Ceylon
Died12 December 2018(2018-12-12) (aged 92)
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Political partyEelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
ProfessionTeacher
EthnicitySri Lankan Tamil

Early life and family

Casinader was born 21 July 1926 in Batticaloa in eastern Ceylon.[1][2] He was the son of Charles Brown Casinader, a kachcheri mudaliyar, and Mildred.[3] He had four brothers (Wesley, Bertram, Noble and Kingsley).[2][3] He was educated at Vincent Girls' High School, St. Cecilia's Girls' College and Methodist Central College in Batticaloa.[2][4]

Casinader had ambitions to be a lawyer but in 1946, due to a shortage of teachers, the principal of Methodist Central College, S. V. O. Somanader, invited Casinader to be a temporary voluntary teacher at the school.[1][4] He studied at the Government Teacher's College (GTC) in Maharagama between 1950 and 1951, obtaining a diploma in education.[1][2][4]

Casinader was married to Anne.[5] He had two daughters, Praemini and Sharmini.[2]

Career

After qualifying Casinader returned to Methodist Central College in 1952, serving as a teacher and deputy principal before becoming principal 1975.[2][4][5][6] He retired in 1986 after 40 years of teaching at Methodist Central College.[1][4]

Casinader contested the 1989 parliamentary election as one of the ENDLF/EPRLF/TELO/TULF alliance's candidates in Batticaloa District and was elected to Parliament.[7][8]

Casinader was president of the Batticaloa Citizens’ Committee and the Batticaloa Vigilance Committee.[2][4][9] He represented Sri Lanka at Amnesty International's world conference in Amsterdam.[2] He was vice-president of the Secondary Trained Teachers’ Union, president of the Batticaloa branch of the Ceylon Teachers’ Union and a founding member of the GTC Fifties.[1][2][9] He was president of the Batticaloa Football Association and East Ceylon Travellers’ Federation, co-patron of the Ceylon Referees Association and vice-chairman of the Eastern Transport Board Consultative Committee.[1][9] He was a member of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka's board of governors.[2][4] He contributed articles for Sri Lankan newspapers and Asiaweek.[1]

Casinader died on 12 December 2018 at his home in Batticaloa.[4][9]

Electoral history
Electoral history of Prince Casinader
Election Constituency Party Alliance Votes Result
1989 parliamentary[7][8]Batticaloa DistrictEelam People's Revolutionary Liberation FrontENDLF/EPRLF/TELO/TULF21,959Elected

References
  1. de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. (1989). 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. pp. 268–269. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  2. Withana, Cecil (17 July 2016). "Prince Casinader of Batticaloa is 90 years old". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  3. "Obituaries". The Daily Mirror. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 28 June 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  4. Tambimuttu, Arun (17 December 2018). "Batticaloa bids farewell to beloved Prince". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  5. "Sri Lanka would have been the loser if English had been downgraded". The Island. Colombo, Sri Lanka. 19 April 2004. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  6. Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (1 January 2006). "The benign parliamentarian from Batticaloa". Transcurrents. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016.
  7. "Results of Parliamentary General Election – 1989" (PDF). Colombo, Sri Lanka: Election Commission of Sri Lanka. p. 33. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  8. de Silva, W. P. P.; Ferdinando, T. C. L. (1989). 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka. Colombo, Sri Lanka: Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited. p. 186. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
  9. Phakuerdeen, M. A. (14 December 2018). "Prince Casinader passes away". Daily News. Colombo, Sri Lanka. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
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