H. Kumarasingham is Senior Lecturer in British Politics and a Political Historian at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research is especially concerned with the constitutional and political manifestations of decolonisation in multiple parts of the British Empire.

• Introduction: Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation1. The Plural Society: Labour and the Commonwealth Idea 1900-19642. Imperial Citizenship or Else: Liberal Ideals and the Indian Unmaking of Empire, 1890-19193. Written Differently: A Survey of Commonwealth Constitutional History in the Age of Decolonisation4. An Acutely Embarrassing Affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African Dispute at the United Nations (1946)5: A Liberal Ghost? The Left, Liberal Democracy and the Legacy of Harold Laski’s Teaching 6. The Post-Colonial Constitutional Order of the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Endurance of the Crown and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council7. Primitive Liberals and Pirate Tribes: Black-Flag Radicalism and the Kibbo Kift8. Imperial Liberalism and Institution Building at the End of Empire in Africa

H. Kumarasingham is Senior Lecturer in British Politics and a Political Historian at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research is especially concerned with the constitutional and political manifestations of decolonisation in multiple parts of the British Empire.

• Introduction: Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation1. The Plural Society: Labour and the Commonwealth Idea 1900-19642. Imperial Citizenship or Else: Liberal Ideals and the Indian Unmaking of Empire, 1890-19193. Written Differently: A Survey of Commonwealth Constitutional History in the Age of Decolonisation4. An Acutely Embarrassing Affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African Dispute at the United Nations (1946)5: A Liberal Ghost? The Left, Liberal Democracy and the Legacy of Harold Laski’s Teaching 6. The Post-Colonial Constitutional Order of the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Endurance of the Crown and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council7. Primitive Liberals and Pirate Tribes: Black-Flag Radicalism and the Kibbo Kift8. Imperial Liberalism and Institution Building at the End of Empire in Africa

H. Kumarasingham is Senior Lecturer in British Politics and a Political Historian at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research is especially concerned with the constitutional and political manifestations of decolonisation in multiple parts of the British Empire.

• Introduction: Liberal Ideals and the Politics of Decolonisation1. The Plural Society: Labour and the Commonwealth Idea 1900-19642. Imperial Citizenship or Else: Liberal Ideals and the Indian Unmaking of Empire, 1890-19193. Written Differently: A Survey of Commonwealth Constitutional History in the Age of Decolonisation4. An Acutely Embarrassing Affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African Dispute at the United Nations (1946)5: A Liberal Ghost? The Left, Liberal Democracy and the Legacy of Harold Laski’s Teaching 6. The Post-Colonial Constitutional Order of the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Endurance of the Crown and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council7. Primitive Liberals and Pirate Tribes: Black-Flag Radicalism and the Kibbo Kift8. Imperial Liberalism and Institution Building at the End of Empire in Africa