Writing to the Viceroy of Goa (Goa in Southern India was also under Portuguese control during the same period) he remarked: "Though I am a Chingala [Sinhala-Sri Lankan] by blood I am a Portuguese in my ways and affections. ... British Prime Minister Winston Churchill later acknowledged the British heavy-handedness and craftiness, saying: "We are not a young people with innocent record and a scanty inheritance. ...

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In 1803, the Mughal kingdom down-fell. This conclusion happened from many days before due to the inner weakness of the Indian- subcontinent. The Mughal rule, in one word, had been easily turned in the hand of British Imperialism very easily, the power was given to the british , even before they realized their faults. Even if they saw the effects or predict the future they didn't give any kind of heed to it, due to their carelessness. The large and abundant riches wealth of Indian sub continent have been famous and its stories of abundant wealth have been rumoring and spread around t...

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The Great Starvation of Ireland I. The starvation in Ireland: 1845-1852 Over the years, the people of Ireland have suffered many hardships, but none compare to the devastation brought by the Irish potato famine of 1845-1857. A poorly managed nation together with ideally wicked weather condit...

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Introduction Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa," published in 1962, is a painful and jarring depiction of ethnic conflict and divided loyalties. The opening images of the poem are drawn from accounts of the Mau Mau Uprising, an extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a ...

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