of India; however, eventually Mahatma Gandhi's candidate, B. R. Ambedkar, was chosen. He then served as constitutional adviser to the Government of Pakistan. He was a member of the Reid Commission from June 1956 to 1957, which was responsible for drafting the Constitution of the Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia). In 1959, he was an advisor to the committee to draft the constitution of Nepal, which was named " Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal,1959." Partial bibliography The Road to Peradeniya Constitutional Laws of the British Empire (1938), later reissued as Constitutional Laws of the Commonwealth (1957) Parliament (1939) A Federation for Western Europe (1940) Party Politics (1955) The Approach to Self-Government The Law and the Constitution (5th Edition) (1959) Principles of Local Government Law (4th Edition) (1960) The British Commonwealth of Nations (1st Ed. 1948, 2nd Ed. 1954, 3rd. Ed. 1956, 4th Revised Ed. 1961) Cabinet Government (3rd Edition) (1965) The British Constitution (5th Edition) (1966) See also University of Ceylon List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge References External links Sir Ivor: First Vice Chancellor of University of Ceylon Archives of Sir Ivor Jennings 1903 births 1965 deaths English constitutionalists Ceylonese Knights Bachelor Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Members of Gray's Inn People associated with the Ceylon University College People educated at Bristol Grammar School People educated at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol People of British Ceylon Sri Lankan people of English descent Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellors of the University of Ceylon Downing Professors of the Laws of England Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Leeds Academics of the London School of Economics 20th-century King's Counsel 20th-century English historians 20th-century British lawyers Fellows of the British Academy