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Commonwealth Organization -

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1. A voluntary international organization of the countries which were once part of the British Empire and now are sovereign states is known as ‘British Commonwealth’ or simply ‘Commonwealth of Nations’. 
2. The idea behind establishing Commonwealth was to be the Governors and administrators together who had worked in the erstwhile colonies of the British empire.
3. The objective was to achieve coherence in the political and administrative machinery by exchange of the experience and ideas of these officers.
4. In 1917, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand were given autonomy as integral states of the British Empire.
5. In 1931, England declared a policy of granting autonomy to all its colonies, one by one. The British Parliament passed a statute known as ‘Statute of Westminster’. This statute approved the formation of Commonwealth.