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100			_aMandal, Srijan Sandip _934507
245			_aThe right that almost was
260			_aSeminar
300			_a750, Feb, 2022: p.20-24
520			_aDECOLONIZATION, points out historian Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, has been ‘conceptualised as an essentially elitist process’, whereby power was transferred from, and by, withdrawing European officials to awaiting indigenous leaders. Consequently, historians like Judith Brown have argued that ‘there was far more continuity than change after 1947’ between the Imperial Raj and what succeeded the Raj, for both ‘the successor states [namely India and Pakistan had] inherited a structure of administration designed to achieve Imperial ends rather than goals of national reconstruction.’ – Reproduced
773			_aSeminar
906			_aHISTORY
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