Eclipse of Empire

This work brings together the work of a historian of the recent colonial experience to provide comprehensive outline accounts of the end of the British Empire in India and Africa, and to assess the many socio-political ramifications of this process. Professor Low places the Indian story in the much wider context of the vast political changes in Asia through to the present day, and provides an account of the political changes in post-independence Africa. He links these with the decolonisation of the once British Commonwealth, and with several important politico-constitutional issues in India, Uganda, Australia and the many Westminster-style systems of government which still persist in the Commonwealth.