Abstract
It may be necessary at the outset to recall, however briefly, the ambiguous international status with which India emerged from the first world war. Though neither a sovereign state nor a Dominion nor a self-governing colony, nor even in any definable sense a constituted entity, India was admitted at Britain's request and amidst considerable criticism, as a founding member of the League of Nations, along with the Dominions of Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. We are not concerned here with the details of the juridical and terminological contortions which were needed for this anomaly to come to pass, in spite of the obvious fact that India did not meet any of the requirements for membership.1 To be sure, the British Empire was not that monolithic structure it then appeared to most European and American
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