HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subhas Chandra Bose, French Communist Party, Anti-Imperialism
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Resistance from colonized peoples: common and continuous phenomenon in colonial rule, uses traditional, cultural, and religious values to reject foreign power, violent or nonviolent, adopt/partially-adopt values of colonizers i. e. indian congress party used british liberalism, communism. Postwar exhaustion (wwii: great financial debt in countries, keeping people under colonial rule became increasingly expensive, especially for britain, collapse of ability of colonial powers to hold on to their colonies. The decline of racialism: nazism was the most racist ideology, but it fell with the end of wwii, racism still exist but not as dominant because less respected. Withdrawal from colonies of domination: bloody insurgencies motivated by religious and ethnic peoples, kashmir question, withdrawal from colony of rule too expensive, easier to withdraw. Settler colonies: the settlers are a problem in withdrawal, settler population is minority with indigenous majority, seizing colonial ruler as their own power and wealth, south africa, rhodesia to zimbabwe.
