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5554357588MataramKingdom that controlled interior regions of Java in 17th century; Dutch East India Company paid tribute to the kingdom for rights of trade at Batavia; weakness of kingdom after 1670s allowed Dutch to exert control over all of Java.0
5554357589SepoysTroops that served the British East India Company; recruited mainly from various warlike peoples of India.1
5554357590British RajBritish political establishment in India; developed as a result of the rivalry between France and Britain in India.2
5554357591PlasseyBattle in 1757 between troops of the British East India Company and an Indian army under Sirãj ud-daula, ruler of Bengal; British victory marked the rise of British control over northern India.3
5554357592Robert Clive(1725-1774) Architect of British Victory of Plassey in 1757; established foundations of British Raj in Northern India (18th Century)4
5554357593PresidenciesThree districts that made up the bulk of the directly ruled British territories in India; capitals at Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay.5
5554357594Princely StatesDomains of Indian princes allied with the British Raj; agents of East India Company were stationed at the rulers' courts to ensure compliance; made up over one-third of the British Indian empire.6
5554357595NabobsName given to British representatives of the East India Company who went briefly to India to make fortunes through graft and exploitation.7
5554357596Lord Charles CornwallisReformer of the East India Company administration of India in the 1790's; reduced power of local British Administrators; checked widespread corruption8
5554357597Ram Mohun RoyWestern educated Indian leader; early nineteenth century; cooperated with British outlaw of Sati9
5554357598IsandhlwanaLocation of battle fought in 1879 between the British and Zulu armies in South Africa; resulted in defeat of British; one of few victories of African forces over western Europeans.10
5554357599Tropical DependenciesColonies with substantial indigenous populations that are ruled by small European political and military minorities with the assistance of colonized bureaucrats, soldiers, clerks, and servants.11
5554357600Settlement coloniesAreas, such as North America and Australia, that were both conquered by European invaders and settled by large numbers of European migrants who made the colonized areas their permanent home and dispersed and decimated the indigenous inhabitants.12
5554357601White DominionsColonies in which European settlers made up the overwhelming majority of the population; small numbers of native inhabitants were typically reduced by disease and wars of conquest; typical of British holdings in North America and Australia with growing independence in the 19th century.13
5554357602White Racial SupremacyBelief in the inherent mental, moral, and cultural superiority of whites; peaked in acceptance in decades before World War I; supported by social science doctrines of social Darwinists such as Herbert Spencer.14
5554357603Boer RepublicsTransvaal and Orange Free State in southern Africa; established to assert independence of Boers from British colonial government in Cape Colony in 1850s; discovery of diamonds and precious metals caused British migration into the Boer areas in 1860s.15
5554357604Anglo Boer WarFought between 1899 and 1902 over the continued independence of Boer republics; resulted in British victory, but began the process of decolonization for whites in South Africa.16
5554357605Cecil RhodesBritish entrepreneur in South Africa around 1900; manipulated political situation in South Africa to gain entry to resources of Boer republics; encouraged Boer War as means of destroying Boer independence.17
5554357606NatalBritish colony in South Africa; developed after Boer trek north from Cape Colony; major commercial outpost at Durban.18
5554357607Captain James CookMade voyages to Hawaii from 1777 to 1779 resulting in opening of islands to the West; convinced Kamehameha to establish unified kingdom in the islands19

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