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As the British Empire receded, India and neighboring Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, preserved the ""Westminster"" -style political system left by their colonial rulers. Both South Asian countries became independent in the late 1940s in widely differing styles: India fought a violent campaign of mass political activism, becoming a republic under Prime Minister Nehru, while Sri Lanka's indigenous elite, among them future Prime Minister Bandaranaike, negotiated independence through a ""gentleman's agreement."" Here, Harshan Kumarasingham analyses the crucial first decade of independence for...

Britain s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in their very different lands. Many Asian nations called upon the services of Englishman and Law Professor Sir Ivor Jennings to advise or assist their own constitution making. Although he was one of the twentieth century s most prominent constitutional scholars, his opinion and influence were often...