The major threat perceived by the Indian people was the threat to the native religions of India (The Indian Mutiny). ... This, along with the spread of western technology such as the telegraph and railways, had the people believing that the English were trying to convert them all to Christianity and get rid of their native religions (India Netzone). ... The British East India Company was able to annex a number of kingdoms, and princes were denied the right to adoption, so if they died with no biological son to take the throne of their kingdom, the company would annex it (India Netzone). ... T...

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Semitic languages take this name from Shem, the second son of Noah. ... In the United States and Canada there are not Native American languages spoken by groups anywhere as large as those are spoken farther south of America. ...

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In principle, one could have a nephew serve as a substitute: a man's sister's son, in this matriarchal regime, would be given by his uncle in ransom; whence the two Wolof expressions, na djây ("may he sell," i.e., the uncle), and djar bât ("he who can buy back," i.e., the nephew). ...

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