McCrum shows how disgruntled North American subjects of British rule deliberately forged a distinctively American English.
Its 150, 000 members were leading businessmen and civil servants during the period of British rule.
The prime minister survived, yet Egypt slid into a nationalist revolt against de facto British rule.
British rule in India, he says (erroneously), existed to extract India's wealth for Britain's benefit.
The first British administrator of Bengal, he was instrumental in the foundation of British rule in India.
The vote showed how deep Kenya's ethnic divides remain even a half-century after the end of British rule.
In 1981, the islands of Antigua and Barbuda became a single independent state, ending 30 years of British rule.
This week marks Indian independence from British rule and the partition that created the nations of India and Pakistan.
As India freed itself from British rule, Indian artists had their own liberation.
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In 1976, the Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles became an independent republic within the Commonwealth after 160 years of British rule.
In the case of southern Sudan, during the half century of British rule, the south was administered separately from the Arab north.
In 1962, Uganda became independent after nearly 70 years of British rule.
When British rule began in 1874, ethnic Fijians were kept in their villages under a separate Fijian administration dominated by traditional provincial chiefs.
Between calls he reminisces about his ancestors, who were feudal landlords in Lahore (part of Pakistan today) when the country was under British rule.
In India, British rule pushed aside the feudal lords and made more room for Indian business, but of course favored British business even more.
That does not necessarily make them wrong: civil disobedience, against British rule in India, or against segregation in America, has a long, honourable history.
Thailand became a free-market economy, open to all investments from all countries, and it absorbed its Chinese immigrants, who had arrived during and after British rule.
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Her popularity also comes in part from being the daughter of General Aung San, a hero of Burma's campaign for independence from British rule in the 1940s.
Bhagat Singh dedicated his life to revolutionary actions out of love for his motherland and these acts were part of the march towards independence from British rule.
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The state is home to nearly one million Christians, among them some of India's oldest convert families who joined the faith in the early days of British rule.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was a saint-genius who turned opposition to British rule into a mass movement and demonstrated, through non-violent protest, that virtue has its own inescapable power.
In the late 1830s, a bunch of doughty Dutch-speaking pioneers embarked on the Great Trek: a thousand-mile hike across desert and bush to escape the tyranny of British rule.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India's political leader to independence from British rule in 1947, and its first prime minister, was born into a high-caste Hindu family and became a resolute secularist.
The islands, which raise their own taxes but rely on the United Kingdom for defense and foreign policy, are one of 14 British overseas territories and have been under British rule since 1833.
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Alice Patten appeared with Aamir Khan in the award-winning film Rang De Basanti, playing a young woman who goes to India to make a documentary film about the British rule in the Indian subcontinent.
This has been suspended for the past year, principally because the Irish Republican Army (IRA) refused to announce a definitive end to its long war against British rule in Northern Ireland (see table below).
During his first year in office Clinton twice turned down visa requests by Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to visit the U.S., because he refused to renounce violence as a means of ending British rule in the North.
In this early phase Qutb, a Muslim who had come under the spell of Sufism, subscribed to the essentially secular nationalism of the day, the focus of which was opposition to British rule in Egypt and to Zionist colonisation in Palestine.
They were arguing it is the British rule of law, not just Europe's, that expects Abu Qatada to remain in the UK - and he shouldn't be deported until we are sure that Jordan has cleaned up its act, no matter how politically painful that may be.
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