H. Kumarasingham is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK.

1. Eastminster - Decolonisation and State-Building in British Asia 2. British constitutional thought and the emergence of bills of rights in Britain's overseas territories in Asia at decolonization 3. Discretionary reserve powers of heads of state 4. A British Misreading: Sir Ivor Jennings' Early Assessment of the Indian Constitution 5. Pakistan's First Decade: Democracy and Constitution - A Historical Appraisal of Centralization 6. 'Specialist In Omniscience'? Nationalism, Constitutionalism, And Sir Ivor Jennings' Engagement With Ceylon7. Constitutionalism and the politics of constitution-making in Malaya, 1956-1957 8. Constitution Drafting as Cold War Realpolitik: Sir Ivor Jennings and Nepal's 1959 Constitution 9. Sir William Ivor Jennings: A Centennial Paper

This book examines the process of constitutional formation in the era of decolonisation and state building in Asia. Contributions to this book shed light upon the influence and participation of Sir Ivor Jennings in particular and British ideas in general on democracy and institutions across the Asian continent. Critical cases studies on India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Nepal - all linked by Britain and Jennings - assess the distinctive methods and outcomes of constitution making and how British ideas fared in these states.