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1948 CE

Burma and Ceylon take different constitutional paths

British Empire · Resistance & colonized agency · Law & imperial government · Self-government & Commonwealth · Decolonization & independence

Burma became an independent republic outside the Commonwealth, months after Aung San’s assassination; U Nu led the new government. Ceylon became a dominion within the Commonwealth under D. S. Senanayake, retaining Westminster institutions that were later transformed

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