Abstract

weeks of work, the words Royal and His Majesty's had been taken off most of India's mailboxes, trucks and ships. In preparation for the occasion, labourers with chisels and paintbrushes had removed hundreds of crowns from the furniture, doorways and walls of New Delhi's great sandstone Government House. The date was January 26, 1950. In formal ceremony, India was declared a sovereign democratic republic and her new Constitution was inaugurated. It was one of the most peaceful declarations of sovereignty the world had ever seen. The only disturbances were Communist demonstrations in Calcutta and Bombay and the throwing of a hand grenade (which failed to explode) at the Nizam of Hyderabad. Indeed, the occasion marked the conclusion of one of the most remarkable bloodless revolutions of all time. In Church-

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