colonial

Vanchinathan, the well renowned freedom fighter who shot Robert Ashe in Vanchi Maniyachi Railway station, is considered as one of the heroes during the Indian Independence struggle. But, do you know the truth behind him and the murder of Robert Ashe? SSNC was dissolved by the British government...

Am I making this up? I seem to remember a story about a British colonial administrator of India who was nicknamed Indian LASTNAME. I remember this being William Jones (Indian Jones), but googling "Indian Jones" doesn't get me much. Was it someone else, or did I make this whole story up?

Is there any book that covers the partition of French Indo-China into Cambodia and Vietnam?

With no WWII--or even with a WWII but with no Fall of France--would France be less willing to give up its colonial empire? I am asking this because, in our TL, France was liberated from the Nazis by Britain and the U.S. and got security guarantees from the U.S. in the form of NATO after the...

Why did England (and Scotland and northern Ireland after the Acts of Union) send so many colonists, in comparison to all the other colonial empires? France had a huge population, so why wasn't the population of New France correspondingly huge? I suppose Portugal did send a proportionally high...

In Colonial & Antebellum eras, which were part of early modern era, in urban & rural areas, & places like forts & ships, how was garbage & waste dealt with, both animal & human? For rural areas I think the solutions are simpler, just step into the nearby woods or where nobody is to do your...

Why was rice grown in Colonial & Antebellum America? It’s well known that rice was introduced to America in the 17th century & indigo was introduced in the 18th century & they remained the main cash crops for the Low Country region (Carolinas & Georgia) until the end of the Civil War...

I have reason to believe these are in some way related to the region of Asia. as these are pictures of my relatives, believed to have been in the colonial army of Great Britain. any information on the uniform, medals and occupation of this man are much needed and wanted. all I know, is it may...

Sugar was the staple of New World slavery so much so that it’s archetypical with it. If you were a captured African at any time during the slave trade era, you could expect to end up on a sugarcane plantation (next to that mining), most likely being in the Caribbean as well (next to that...

Is it correct to see the european colonial empires as "remote past" now, if not in years, then in effect and in our mind? This year is 70 years since the British-India disappeared with some other colonial possesions (Eastern Meditteranean, Iraq, etcetera) but is that not already as if far-away...

So I’m reading ‘Child Life in Colonial Times’, only a few pages in but I’m reeling over the number of kids the families had. Ben Franklin, for example, was one of SEVENTEEN CHILDREN. William Rawson had TWENTY KIDS with one wife. I’m sorry, but did no one think of the poor woman giving birth to...

Were there any colonial wars instigated by France against England that were successful for them?

What exactly prevented the governor of a distant territory - say, the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines during the 16th or 17th century - from simply usurping power and ruling the colony as if it were his own personal fiefdom, similar to what Muhammad Ali Pasha did in Ottoman Egypt in...

I have ancestors named Seay from Virginia. As far as I can tell, they are descended from Mathew Seay from County Down, Ulster who came to Virginia about 1690. The Seay family in County Down was originally Catholic, but about half of them converted to Church of Ireland. Presumably they were...

Dutch Colonial Empire. Always have my reason, the Portuguese discovered and colonized the Netherlands and other countries plundered territories discovered by Portuguese and Spanish. The greatest defeat of portugal at that time the Portuguese population was small, but we still expelled the...

I previously posted this in the "welcome new users" forum by mistake. I would like to discuss the changes to the British Army uniforms through the latter half of the 19th Century. Primarily the period where the British colonial troops replaced the red tunic for khaki. Can anyone shed any light...

I would like to discuss the changes to the British Army uniforms through the latter half of the 19th Century. Primarily the period where the British colonial troops replaced the red tunic for khaki. Can anyone shed any light on when this change happened? My main interest is the following...

old picture I've found recently. not sure who it is, but I'm certainly related. I had a previous post like this, but with a group picture. So any help again would be amazing! even if you know a tiny shed of information, any is great. And thanks for all the help on my past one! P.S the...

I need at least three civic or professional restrictions placed on Jews in colonial america.

This has been fascinating me recently, the fact that the great European colonial empires lasted until so (relatively) recently, in some cases lasting until the 1960's and 1970's (as with France and Portugal), within the same lifespan as my parents. It's somewhat surreal, since the age of...