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A political legacy of the British Empire : power and the parliamentary system in post-colonial India and Sri Lanka / Harshan Kumarasingham.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International library of twentieth century history ; 54.Publication details: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Description: 297 pISBN:
  • 9781780762289 (hbk.)
  • 1780762283 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 328.5409045 23 KUM/P
LOC classification:
  • DS480.84 .K773 2013
Contents:
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.
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Books Books MES KC LIBRARY POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Science 328.5409045 KUM/P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available GL10R4 38824

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-292) and index.

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.

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