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Chandrapore
the fictional Indian city in E. M. Forster's novel A Passage to India (1924). It is said to have been based on the city of Bankipur, a suburb of Patna in the state of Bihar.
Adela Quested
repressed english woman, open-minded desire to get to know Indians, falsely accused Aziz of raping her
Voortrekker Memorial
is located just south of Pretoria in South Africa. This massive granite structure is prominently located on a hilltop, and was raised to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854.
Archbishop Daniel Mannix
Irish-born AustralianCatholic bishop. Mannix was the Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years and one of the most influential public figures in 20th-century Australia.
The Ashes
the notional prize in Test cricket series played between England andAustralia.
The All Blacks
New Zealand men's national rugby union team
represent New Zealand in what is regarded as its national sport.
Komagata Maru
was a steamship owned by the Shinyei Kisen Goshi Kaisya of Japan.
Indentured Laborer
-a form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the American colonies and elsewhere.
-most used as a way for poor teenagers in Britain and the German states to get free passage to the American colonies.
Thomas Stamford Raffles
a Britishstatesman, best known for his founding of the city of Singapore
Sydeny Parkinson, William Hodges, and John Webber
the artists on all three of Cook's voyages - across the Pacific, to the Southern Pacific and Antarctic, and to the Northern Pacific and the Arctic
-they produced several thousand drawings and paintings (both oils and watercolours), most of which still exist.
Thomas Baines
an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia.
'Group of Seven'
sometimes known as the Algonquin school — was a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933
Lord Kitchener
-a British Field Marshal and colonial administrator
-won fame for his imperial campaigns
-later played a central role in the early part of the First World War, although he died halfway through it.
Sezincote
-a British estate, located in Gloucestershire, England.
-designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell in 1805
-a notable example of Neo-Mughal architecture, a 19th-century reinterpretation of 16th and 17th-century Mughal architecture from the Mughal Empire
Burmese Days
a novel by British writer George Orwell
-a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled as part of the Indian empire – "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj."
The Empire Windrush
arrived at Tilbury on 22 June 1948, carrying 493 passengers from Jamaica wishing to start a new life in the United Kingdom.
The passengers (including one stowaway[1]) were the first large group of West Indian immigrants to the UK after the Second World War.
Enoch Powell
a British politician, classical scholar, linguist and poet. He served as a Conservative Member of Parliament
New South Wales
a state in the east of Australia. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively.
surrounds the whole of the Australian Capital Territory.
New South Wales' capital city is Sydney, which is also the state's most populous city.
ANZAC
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that was formed in Egypt in 1915 and operated during the Battle of Gallipoli.
R.G Menzies
an Australian politician and the 12th Prime Minister of Australia. Serving a collective total of over 18 years, he is Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister.
Waltzing Matilda
is Australia's most widely known bush ballad. A folk song, the song has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia"
Terra Nullius
"land belonging to no one"
territory which has never been subject to the sovereignty of any state, or over which any prior sovereign has expressly or implicitly relinquished sovereignty.
Yoruba
an ethnic group of southwestern Nigeria and southern Benin in West Africa. The Yoruba constitute over 35 million people in total, the majority of this population is from Nigeria
The Gold Coast
the region of West Africa that is now the nation of Ghana.
The Gold Coast, Slave Coast, and Ivory Coast were named after the resources there. Early uses of the term refer literally to the coast and not the interior. It was not until the 19th century that the term came to refer to areas that are far from the coast. It was to the east of theIvory Coast and to the west of the Slave Coast.
Cecil Rhodes
an English businessman, mining magnate, and politician in South Africa.
Masai
a town located in east Johor Bahru District, Malaysia, and is the oldest part of Johor Bahru.
High Life
a music genre that originated in Ghana at the turn of the 20th century and incorporated the traditional harmonic 9th, as well as melodic and the main rhythmic structures in traditional Akan music, and married them with Western instruments and ideas.
Kwame Nkrumah
the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghanaand the first Prime Minister of Ghana.
Raj
"royalty" or "kingdom" in many Sanskrit and Hindu language
Santal Rebellion
a native rebellion in eastern India against both the British colonial authority and corrupt upper caste zamindari system by the Santal people.
Subhash Chandra Bose
an Indian nationalist whose defiant patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi Germanyand Japan left a troubled legacy
The "Great Calcutta Killing"
a day of widespread riot and manslaughter between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Calcutta in the Bengal province of British India.
Bollywood
the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
Brahmins
are traditional Hindu societies of India, Nepal and The Far East. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self.
Sino-British Joint Declaration
signed by the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom governments
-the PRC stated that it had decided to resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, and the UK Government declared that it would hand over Hong Kong to the PRC.