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If Commonwealth doctrines and procedures shaped the processes of decolonization in India, Burma and Ceylon, decolonization and its aftermath completely reshaped the Commonwealth. In this respect, India’s continued membership as a republic became the most significant landmark in the evolution of the modern Commonwealth, by providing a new dimension to the doctrine of equality of status enunciated in 1926 and 1931.1
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See R. J. Moore, Making the New Commonwealth ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987 ).
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McIntyre, W.D. (1998). Republics in the Commonwealth. In: British Decolonization, 1946–1997. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26922-8_12
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