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Is there an example of colonization impacting Bharat's (India's) indigenous conception of time and space?
I am reading the book India that is Bharat - Coloniality, Civilisation, Constituition by J Sai Deepak.
In it I am coming across this notion time and again that - colonization impacted the indigenous ...
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Why was the US so adamant about dismantling colonial empires during and after WW2 despite their seemingly contradictory racial and ethnic views?
I'm reading Antony Beevor's "The Second World War" and am increasingly confused by the seemingly contradictory American views on foreign peoples and their independence in relation to their ...
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Which European country first introduced wristwatches to China and why is it called 手表?
As a native French speaker studying Mandarin Chinese, I couldn't help but notice that the Chinese term for wristwatch, 手表 (hand-show), is quite similar to the French term "une montre" (a &...
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(Why) didn't the "fountain of justice" flow through Governors-General?
Nowadays both the Australian and Canadian governments agree that their (respective) Governor-General (henceforth GG) belongs to two branches of government: both executive and legislative.
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Can you recommend any good researches on the period of Japanese colonization of Taiwan? [closed]
Just as the title says, I'm currently looking forward towards learning more about the topic. If you know any works that you find fundamental in a way on this topic, I'll gladly accept any suggestions!
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How much wealth did the US "earn" from Philippines during its occupation as a colony?
I recently came across this article - ‘There’s No Other Job’: The Colonial Roots of Philippine Poverty which highlights that:
Decades after independence, the Philippines lacks the kind of factory ...
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Why did epidemic disease spread only from Europe to America and not both ways in the Columbian Exchange? [duplicate]
In learning about the history of the Americas you often hear about how pre-columbian civilizations operating at a highly advanced level were devastated by epidemic diseases like smallpox, to the point ...
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Why wasn’t Japan colonized by the European empires?
Why wasn’t Japan colonized by the European empires?
That is a question that I have some doubts, European countries like Portugal had already been there, but they never colonized that land.
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Why didn't Russia colonize in the scramble for Africa?
Russia was a European empire (one of the biggest) when the scramble for Africa happened and they had enough resources to get a ton of Africa, so why didn't they colonize in Africa? It could have been ...
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Did China colonize any countries? [closed]
A lot of Asian countries used to use the Chinese alphabet to write such as Japan or Vietnam, were there any countries actually colonized by China that is not apart of modern day China?
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Why did it take over 100 years for Britain to begin seriously colonising America?
After the New World was discovered, it didn't take long for Spain, and relatively soon after, Portugal, to begin permanent colonisation there. It took over 100 years after the New World's discovery ...
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How have European countries affected the caste system in India?
The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste. It has its origins in ancient India, and was transformed by various ruling elites in medieval, early-modern, and modern ...
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Did the Europeans benefit economically from the scramble for Africa?
In the following video Rudyard Lynch, owner of the youtube channel "whatifalthist" claims that
Nearly every African colony cost the Europeans far more than they got out of it – the ...
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Did European elites train natives from colonial lands to help spread western values?
In 1961 Frantz Fanon wrote a book called "The Wretched of the Earth". In the preface of the book Jean-Paul Sartre wrote the following:
The European elite decided to fabricate a native elite;...
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What was the state of the Congo in 1959?
I'm reading the Poisonwood Bible. It is about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from the U.S. state of Georgia to the village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo.
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