Sentences with phrase «british colonial days»

The biggest news is the golf: Not since British colonial days has there been a real golf course in Belize.

«Outcastes» in India have been known by different names such as: «Harijan,» meaning children of Han (God) given by Gandhi; «Avarrias» meaning casteless; «Panchamas» meaning fifth caste; «Chandalas» meaning worst of the earth; «Depressed classes» given during British Colonial days, and Scheduled Caste given by the Indian Constitution.

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Recalling the blunders that led to the island's defeat in early 1942, he wrote, «In 70 days of surprises, upsets and stupidities, British colonial society was shattered, and with it all the assumptions of the Englishman's superiority.»

President Akufo - Addo has come under a barrage of attacks after he revealed plans to present a legislation before Parliament to set aside August 4 as a day to celebrate the many founders of Ghana ditching September 21 as the commemorative day for Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first President and a key figure in the fight for freedom from British colonial rule.

Richard Beale Blaize (in 1880, founded Lagos Times and Gold Coast Colony Advertiser, a local newspaper); Mojola Agbebi (led the campaign to make the Baptist Church more African - friendly); John Otonba Payne (first native registrar of Lagos courts); James Johnson, «Holy Johnson», (whose keen sensitivity helped to stabilize the Anglican Church of his day); Henry Carr (famed educationist) and the young Herbert Macaulay (soon to turn the chief British nemesis of Colonial Lagos), just to mention a few.

I loved it, and I read it every day when I was a kid at a rural primary school, just a few years after independence from British colonial rule.

From the old days of the Mughal Empire to British colonial rule, visitors walk through the various heritage sites... Lahore Authority.»

Colonial militias and Native Americans were forced to choose sides and so Hawkeye (Day Lewis) and his Mohawk family side with the British and Magua — a vengeful Huron with a score to settle — joins the French.

For historical architecture lovers, Belize City is adorned with Caribbean and British colonial style homes, which speaks of the days when people knew Belize as British Honduras.

Belizean and Related History: Ancient Mayan Civilizations, Pirate Country of Wallix, the Baymen of Balis, Colonial days in British Honduras and Modern Belizean History.

Day 2 Arrive Yangon, with its mix of British colonial architecture, modern high - rises and gilded Buddhist pagodas.

Belize was called British Honduras back during the colonial days, but it got this name because the southern part of the country opens onto the Bay of Honduras.

This animation, The Last Post, first created for the exhibition By Day, By Night, or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can Do at the Rockbund Art Museum (Shanghai) in 2010, is inspired by Sikander's ongoing interest in the colonial history of the sub-continent and the British opium trade with China.

The work of contemporary British artists, including Hew Locke and Andrew Gilbert, has been included «to offer fresh interpretations of colonial imagery and confront the problematic legacies of Empire in the present day».

Removal of the Churchill bust evidently was a temper tantrum relating to Churchill's actions, or the British Government actions taken when President Obama's Mau mau terrorist ancestors went on a tribal rampage in Kenya; hacking innocent white civilians to death with machettes, in the night; back in Kenya's colonial days.