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- 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’.
- The idea behind establishing Commonwealth was to be the Governors and administrators together who had worked in the erstwhile colonies of the British empire.
- The objective was to achieve coherence in the political and administrative machinery by exchange of the experience and ideas of these officers.
- In 1917, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand were given autonomy as integral states of the British Empire.
- 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.
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