A political legacy of the British Empire : power and the parliamentary system in post-colonial India and Sri Lanka - Kumarasingham, Harshan 1979- (London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-292) and index.
Keywords: Representative government and representation -- Sri Lanka -- History -- 20th century; Postcolonialism -- India; Postcolonialism -- Sri Lanka; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-; Sri Lanka -- Politics and government