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    Dominion of India

    The Dominion of India (Hindi: , Bhrata


    Adhirjya) was a predecessor to modern-day India and an
    independent state that existed between 15 August 1947
    and 26 January 1950. It was transformed into the Republic of India by the promulgation of the Constitution
    of India on 26 January 1950.[1]
    George VI was made King of India (the head of state)
    and was represented by the Governor-General of India. However, the governor-general was not designated
    viceroy, as had been customary under the British Raj.
    Two governors-general held oce in India during the
    Dominion period (after the oce of Viceroy was abolished by the Indian Independence Act 1947): the Earl
    Mountbatten of Burma (194748) and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (194850). Jawaharlal Nehru held oce as
    prime minister formerly as Secretary for State (the head
    of government) of the Union of India throughout this period. Unlike the Indian subcontinent, countries such as
    Canada and Australia have chosen to retain the British
    monarch as head of state, although the topic of switching
    towards a republic has been discussed many times.

    Standard of the Governor-General (19471950)

    The royal succession was governed by the Act of Settlement 1701.


    On 22 June 1948, King George VI abandoned the title
    King-Emperor and Queen Elizabeth Queen-Empress.[2]
    The monarchy was abolished on 26 January 1950, when
    India became a republic within the Commonwealth, the
    rst Commonwealth country to do so.

    3 List of Indian monarchs

    Partition of India

    4 See also

    Main article: Partition of India

    History of the Republic of India

    The Partition of British India led to the creation of the


    sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan (which
    later split into the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the
    Peoples Republic of Bangladesh) and the Union of India
    (later Republic of India) on 15 August 1947.

    Indian independence movement

    5 External links

    The Constituent Assembly adopted the Constitution of


    India, drafted by a committee headed by B. R. Ambedkar, on 26 November 1949. India (with the addition
    of Sikkim) became a federal, democratic republic after its constitution came into eect on 26 January 1950.
    Rajendra Prasad became the rst President of India.

    [1] Mohin Jadarro Harappa. India Divided Religion 'Then'


    (1947) (East-West): 'Now' What Languages ( North-South
    ) ?. Publish America. p. 65.
    [2] The London Gazette: no. 38330. p. 3647. 22 June 1948.
    Retrieved 25 August 2014. Royal Proclamation of 22
    June 1948, made in accordance with the Indian Independence Act 1947, 10 & 11 GEO. 6. CH. 30.('Section 7:
    ...(2)The assent of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
    is hereby given to the omission from the Royal Style and
    Titles of the words " Indiae Imperator " and the words "
    Emperor of India " and to the issue by His Majesty for
    that purpose of His Royal Proclamation under the Great
    Seal of the Realm.'). According to this Royal Proclamation, the King retained the Style and Titles 'George VI by
    the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and the British
    Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith',

    Monarchy

    The monarchy of India was a system in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign of India from 1947 to
    1950. India shared the same person as its sovereign as the
    United Kingdom and the other Dominions in the British
    Commonwealth of Nations. The monarchs constitutional
    roles were mostly carried out by the governor-general.
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    and he thus remained King of the various Dominions, including India and Pakistan, though these two (and others)
    eventually chose to abandon their monarchies and became
    republics.

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