HISTORY 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Artificiality, Intelligentsia, Indirect Rule
8 Mar 2016
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Colonialism as a political and cultural system: colonialism"s novelty and artificiality. What impacts did eur colonialism have on sea. In many ways, euro permanently disrupted regional interactions: new territories. Brought together territories that had no history of associating with each other. Burma was thrown open to massive indian immigrations. This is done to fit the british"s convenience without regards to the burmese. Spanish was determined to include mandalay (muslim areas) to the philippines. The muslims south was much closer to the indonesians than they were to the. Under the dutch, dissimilar people were forced to coincide. In these instances, for example, eur joined cultures. 1824, they drew a line through the malay world. Laos & cambodia have always been part of the tais solar polity. French ripped away laos and cambodia and join it with vn for their convenience: freezing regional interactions. Artificial boundaries were part of a more general assault on regional integrity.
