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The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
  • 19 - Indian Summer or Conservative Winter?
  • Edited by Allen Packwood, Churchill College, Cambridge
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill
  • Published online: 19 January 2023
  • Print publication: 26 January 2023, pp 379-395
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    Summary

    This chapter is concerned with the last period of Churchill’s premiership and leadership of the Conservative Party. It focusses not just on the last part of his ‘Indian summer’ when back in office but also on the tempestuous moves and motives of the Conservatives to compel his retirement in an age before party leadership elections. It also examines Churchill’s manoeuvres to frustrate these ambitions and continue in power. While many studies have examined how British politicians gain the leadership of political parties, there has been less analysis of their inevitable fall. The chapter is written primarily from the Conservative perspective since, until the 1965 Douglas-Home Rules which established leadership elections and procedures, so-called customary processes existed to enable, largely without public knowledge (and even beyond the engagement of many Conservative politicians themselves), the emergence, and removal, of leaders ‘for the good of the party’.

  • The Indian Version of First among Equals – Executive Power during the First Decade of Independence
  • H. KUMARASINGHAM
  • Journal: Modern Asian Studies / Volume 44 / Issue 4 / July 2010
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009, pp. 709-751
  • Print publication: July 2010
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    When India gained independence in August 1947 the world watched with excitement as well as trepidation as to what would happen following this unique and major event. The political destiny of the world's largest democracy would lie in the hands of an infinitesimal portion of the population – the political executive. India's new institutions had new operators to act in new conditions. There were few precedents. Within this Westminster system, refounded in India with its emphasis on executive flexibility and ambiguity, the leading political figures often had conflicting opinions and interpretations as to their powers. The relationship between Nehru as Prime Minister and other leading political figures, such as Patel as deputy Prime Minister, Prasad as President, and their definitions of their roles, would forge a new India. This paper revisits those debates and ideas in the first decade following independence, which allow greater understanding of the workings and conventions of today's Indian executive.