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  • 2 - The Formation of the League of Nations and Indian Membership ‘The Anomaly among Anomalies’

  • Thomas Gidney, Geneva Graduate Institute
  • Book:
    An International Anomaly
    Published online:
    23 March 2025
    Print publication:
    03 April 2025, pp 69-104
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    Having secured a seat at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of the First World War, British and Dominion officials pushed for the accession of British colonies to the new League of Nations. Chapter Two probes the legal bases, as well as the political arguments employed to convince United States’ President Woodrow Wilson, why the Dominions and India should be separate member states from Britain at the League. As Britain and the Dominions pushed Wilson for colonial accession to the League, this chapter also examines political pressures, both within the United States, as well as from anti-colonial nationalists from within British colonies, who wanted their own membership of the League, separate from the one proposed by Britain. In doing so, this chapter answers whether colonial membership came about through British imperial design, or through anti-colonial pressures of the ‘Wilsonian Moment’.