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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
Colombo — Ceylon, quietly
4 Feb 1948 — Ceylon becomes a dominion by negotiation — no march, no partition, no massacre. The same empire, the same year, a different exit: the comparison every historian of 1947 must answer.
This is one scene of Chapter 12 — The Price and the Legacy in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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