These two lived through the near dissolution of the British Empire as India gained independence and Palestine became independent Israel.
What followed was rapid decolonization as Singapore, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), Botswana, Malawi, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), Gambia, Yemen, Jordan, Seychelles, Malaysia, Kenya, Hong Kong, Burma, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Brunei, the Gold Coast (now Ghana), the Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Newfoundland (now part of Canada), British Honduras (now Belize), British Guiana (now Guyana), Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Papua New Guinea, the New Hebrides, the Maldives, the Gilbert Islands, Mauritius, Tonga, Kiribati, Samoa, Nigeria, Sierra Leon, Cyprus, Malta, Jamaica, Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Ireland, Lesotho, St Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Uganda, Oman, the Maldives, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, and New Zealand all declared or were granted independence.
In addition, Pakistan and Bangladesh were created out of the breakup of India
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