Prince Casinader
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Prince Casinader | |
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பிரின்ஸ் காசிநாதர் | |
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| Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka | |
| In office 1989–1994 | |
| Constituency | Batticaloa District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 July 1926 |
| Died | 12 December 2018 (aged 92) Batticaloa, Sri Lanka |
| Party | Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front |
| Profession | Teacher |
| Ethnicity | Sri Lankan Tamil |
Prince Gunarasa Casinader (Tamil: பிரின்ஸ் குணராசா காசிநாதர்; 21 July 1926 – 12 December 2018) was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament.
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 Teachers' College (GTC) in Maharagama between 1950 and 1951, obtaining a diploma in education.[1][2][4]
Casinader was married to Joyce.[5] They had two daughters, Praemini and Sharmini.[2]
