| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| Prince Casinader | |
| Native Name: | பிரின்ஸ் காசிநாதர் |
| Native Name Lang: | ta |
| Office1: | Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka |
| Constituency1: | Batticaloa District |
| Term Start1: | 1989 |
| Term End1: | 1994 |
| Birth Date: | 21 July 1926 |
| Birth Place: | Batticaloa, Ceylon |
| Death Place: | Batticaloa, Sri Lanka |
| Party: | Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front |
| Profession: | Teacher |
| Blank1: | Ethnicity |
| Data1: | 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 Anne.[5] He had two daughters, Praemini and Sharmini.[2]
After qualifying Casinader returned to Methodist Central College in 1952, serving as a teacher and deputy principal before becoming principal in 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]
| Constituency | scope=col | Party | scope=col | Alliance | scope=col | Votes | scope=col | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21,959 | Elected |