Ceylon adopts a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Constitution_of_1972" id="mwAWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sri Lankan Constitution of 1972">new constitution</a>, becoming a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic" id="mwAWE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republic">republic</a> and changing its name to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" id="mwAWI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>.