![]() ![]() India, Pakistan, and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) were also dominions for short periods of time. "Dominion status" was accorded to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, and the Irish Free State at the 1926 Imperial Conference to designate "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations”. ![]() The term dominion was used to refer to one of several self-governing nations of the British Empire.
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