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Former Commonwealth realms

  • Dominion of PakistanOn the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions were set up in India. The Indian Independence Act 1947 declared…
  • Dominion of IndiaLord Louis Mountbatten arrived in India in March 1947 to find violence between Hindus and Muslims raging in Punjab and Bengal.
  • Union of South AfricaSir George Grey served as Governor of Cape Colony from 1854 to 1861. He believed that political divisions between white-controlled states weakened them…