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While decolonisation across South and South East Asia seemed inevitable, the territory of the British Empire was at its apogee in 1945 and the journey to independence for countries in this region was not simple.
The following table gives the population of the British Empire and its territories, in several different time periods. The most populous territory in the empire was British India, which included what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh.
29 Αυγ 2023 · As these documents illuminate, the changing nature of the Commonwealth in the post-Second World War era, with the ascension of newly independent African and Asian states, gave it a different function for the British government.
World War Two became the death knell for the British Empire, welcoming a period of rapid and often rushed decolonisation. Burma (now Myanmar) Aung San’s Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League fought against the British in World War Two, but then switched sides before the end of the war.
From the 16th to the 20th centuries, the British Empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1920 to over 35,500,000 km 2 (13,700,000 sq mi), the largest empire in the world. [1] In terms of population, on the eve of World War II, Britain and her colonial possessions totaled 500 million inhabitants.
Britain's pre-eminence in Asia was challenged in the Twentieth Century by the rise of Japan and its desire to have a 'seat at the table' of European Imperialism and the increasing interest and involvement of the United States as ideas of 'Manifest Destiny' spilled over into the Pacific Ocean.
The British Empire reached an apogee in the early years of the twentieth century. It survived the difficulties of the inter-war years, but the Second World War triggered its collapse; the 1942–1956 period saw the total collapse of the state-empire, and the consequent re-ordering of its component territories, peripheral and metropolitan.
