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...
As the British Empire receded, India and neighboring Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, preserved the ""Westminster"" -style political system left by...
Volume 32 of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Sixth Series) includes: 'The Making and Breaking of Kinetic Empire: Mobility, Communication and Political Change in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 950-1100 CE'; 'A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism: Theory and Practice in Global History'; 'Popular Propaganda: John Heywood's Wedding Ballad and Mary I's Spanish Match'; 'The Roads Not Taken: Liberty, Sovereignty and the Idea of the Republic in Poland-Lithuania and the British Isles, 1550-1660'; 'Four Axes of Mission: Conversion and the Purposes of Mission in Protestant...
Volume 32 of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Sixth Series) includes: 'The Making and Breaking of Kinetic Empire: Mobility, Communication...
