Suchergebnisse

1. Eastminster : decolonisation and state-building in British Asia / H. Kumarasingham -- 2. British constitutional thought and the emergence of bills of rights in Britain's overseas territories in Asia at decolonisation / Charles O.H. Parkinson -- 3. Discretionary reserve powers of heads of state / Anne Twomey -- 4. A British misreading : Sir Ivor Jennings' early assessment of the Indian constitution / Shubhankar Dam -- 5. Pakistan's first decade : democracy and constitution - a historical appraisal of centralisation / Tahir Kamran -- 6. "Specialist in omniscience"? Nationalism, constitutionalism, and Sir Ivor Jennings' engagement with Ceylon / Asanga Welikala -- 7. Constitutionalism and the politics of constitution-making in Malaysia, 1956-1957 / Joseph M. Fernando -- 8. Constitution drafting as Cold War realpolitik : Sir Ivor Jennings and Nepal's 1959 constitution / Mara Malagodi -- 9. Sir William Ivor Jennings : a centennial paper / A.W. Bradley.

Eastminster : the Westminster system in India and Sri Lanka -- Mixed messages? India's responses to its British legacy -- The Indian version of first among equals : the battle for executive ascendency -- Indian federalism : a paramount mechanism -- 'Think of Ceylon as a little bit of England' : Sri Lanka and the British legacy -- Unconventional conventions : power partnerships in the Sri Lankan executive -- Sri Lankan communalism : a 'canker' ignored? -- India and Sri Lanka's Eastminsters compared -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Governors-General, Presidents and Prime Ministers of India and Sri Lanka in the post-independence decade.

This article investigates the period before Sri Lanka was engulfed by civil war and ethnic strife and how things changed so rapidly following colonial rule. Sri Lanka's independence was seen as a model to be followed in the decolonisation of the British Empire due to the island's peace, prosperity, indigenous leadership and its preference for British institutions. However, behind this façade the years surrounding Sri Lankan independence also saw the foundations for the vicious civil war that has dominated all recent coverage of this Indian Ocean state. This article assesses how warning signs were misread or ignored and how early political decisions in this era forged the beginnings of the future problems ahead.

This article investigates the period before Sri Lanka was engulfed by civil war and ethnic strife and how things changed so rapidly following colonial rule. Sri Lanka's independence was seen as a model to be followed in the decolonisation of the British Empire due to the island's peace, prosperity, indigenous leadership and its preference for British institutions. However, behind this façade the years surrounding Sri Lankan independence also saw the foundations for the vicious civil war that has dominated all recent coverage of this Indian Ocean state. This article assesses how warning signs were misread or ignored and how early political decisions in this era forged the beginnings of the future problems ahead