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Commonwealth of Nations

  • Partition of IndiaIn 1905, Lord Curzon divided the Bengal Presidency into two provinces. The Muslim-majority province of Eastern Bengal and Assam emerged alongside the…
  • Commonwealth of NationsOn the 18th of January 1884, Lord Rosebery stood in Adelaide, South Australia, and described the changing British Empire as a "Commonwealth of Nations".
  • The CrownLegal scholars Maurice Sunkin and Sebastian Payne once wrote that the nature of the Crown has been taken for granted, in part because it is fundamental.