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Displacing Indigenous Peoples
How the trading companies like the East India Company made themselves into political powers in South Asia ?
They retained the older well-developed administrative system and collected taxes from landowners.
Later they built railways to make trade easier, excavated mines and established big plantations.
What is meant by 'settler' ?
The word 'settler' is used for the Dutch in South Africa, the British in Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, and the Europeans in America. The official language in these colonies was English (except in Canada, where French is also an official language).
What is meant by 'Native' ?
'Native' mean a person born in the place he/she lives in. Until the early twentieth century, the term was used by Europeans to describe the inhabitants of countries they had colonised.
How the names of native tribes are given ?
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