East and West in Kim and Gora by Ruhul Asfia

“…Rabindranath Tagore’s commitment to the nationalist movements originated from his realization of the intense feeling of how miserably Indians felt subordinated during the colonial rule. Tagore’s novel is a scathing exposure of the narrowness, bigotry and stupidity of Hinduism. …”
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Independence Day in a would-be Christian nation by Timo Kallinen

“…When the West African nation of Ghana attained its independence from colonial rule in 1957, its traditional culture was to be promoted in all sectors of public life. …”
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The first Indochina war (1946–1954) and the Geneva agreement (1954) by Pham Duc Thuan, Tran Minh Thuan

“…Japan surrendered to the allies and the situation was favorable for the French army to return to Indochina to continue its colonial rule as before 1945. That sparked a war, mainly between Vietnam (the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and the French colonialists. …”
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The Moplah Rebellion Reconsidered: Islamic Insurrection in Southern India, 1921-1922 by Simon James Bytheway

“…Contemporary newspaper reports and de-classified archival sources are used to revisit an infamous episode in the long, contentious, and very often violent encounter between colonial rule and the Muslim Moplah peasants. The significance of the Moplah rebellion is re-stated as being relevant and revelatory to all peoples, despite the timelessness of war, as it marks the emergence of protracted (asymmetrical) guerrilla tactics as the dominant mode of anti-colonial warfare. …”
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The Impact of Colonial Thinking Legacy on the Production of Knowledge about the Fine Arts in Southeast Asia by Pernandus Simanullang

“…In anthropology, postcolonialism studies human relations in colonial countries and subaltern societies exploited by colonial rule. Postcolonialism describes, explains, and illustrates the ideology of neocolonialism by taking the humanities, history, and political science, philosophy and sociology, anthropology, and. …”
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The missed encounter of turupukllay: Marxism, indigenous communities and Andean culture in Yawar Fiesta

“…The article turns to Arguedas’s first major novel, Yawar Fiesta (1941), and traces its portrayal of such a missed encounter as it occurs around the celebration of turupukllay, an Andean translation of a Spanish bullfight that commemorates Peru’s independence from colonial rule. The wager of the article is that Yawar Fiesta’s capacity to illuminate key contributing factors of the missed encounter enables Arguedas to advance an immanent critique, a critique of a certain tendency of Marxism from within Marxism itself, and that, as a result, the novel supplements socialist theory by simultaneously exposing its limits and enhancing its claims. …”
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Identity and Identification in Azouz Begag’s Le Gone du Chaâba and Béni ou le paradis privé by Jonathan Lewis

“…Using contemporary post-colonial criticism to carry out a close reading of these two texts, this article will take into account the memory of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), which marked Algeria’s independence from French colonial rule, and its connection to France’s current attitude towards ethnic difference. …”
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UNDERSTANDING THE COLONIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE INDIGO REBELLION’S PEASANT by Niazul Islam

“…The second significant effect of colonial rule is the change of agricultural mode of production. …”
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TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC CHANGE IN COLONIAL ESANLAND, NIGERIA by Williams Ehizuwa Orukpe, Samuel Ovuete Aghalino

“…They commanded respect, were protected by customary laws and sustained by tributes that enabled them to be economically detached. But under colonial rule, they were redeployed as vital instruments for actualising the British economic interest. …”
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When the Sage Becomes a “God” by Tho Ngoc Nguyen

“…During the period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, under harsh colonial rule, a number of messianic religious movements emerged. …”
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OD DEMOKRACJI PRZEDSTAWICIELSKIEJ DO DEMOKRACJI PRAWNICZEJ: KONSTYTUCJA STANÓW ZJEDNOCZONYCH A EWOLUCJA USTROJOWA PAŃSTWA by Zbigniew Lewicki

“…Prior precedences under the British or colonial rule can hardly be claimed as they were established in a markedly different system in which the tripartite division of power was not as pronounced as it is under the U.S. …”
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THE EVOLUTION OF ISLAMIC LAW IN INDONESIA: A SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ITS STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE by ACHMAD IRWAN HAMZANI, SOESI IDAYANTI

“…Despite being abolished by Dutch colonial rule, Islamic law persisted and continues to influence both written and unwritten aspects of Indonesian law. …”
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Colonialism and Toponyms in Singapore by Samantha JingYi Yom, Francesco Cavallaro

“…An analysis of historical data revealed that toponymic changes associated with these places during colonial rule mostly reflected the asymmetrical power relationship between the colonisers and the colonised. …”
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Gender and Domestic Space in Ahmed Ali's and Krishna Sobti's Novels on Old Delhi by Pallavi Narayan

“…Much celebrated novels such as Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali and The Heart Has Its Reasons by Krishna Sobti are usually viewed as nostalgic evocations of the lost past of the city as it was moving out of colonial rule and into a new era. This paper examines the complexities of gender relations and segregation as offered in the novels, which mirror and showcase the gradual intensification of the colonised city shifting into a space of independence, although at first with timid hesitation. …”
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Haiti - Harmed at the Hands of Others by Max Ray-Ellis

“…Their revolution had begun in 1791, when enslaved people sought to break free of brutal French colonial rule that originated in the mid-seventeenth century. …”
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Decolonising the concept of the Trinity to decolonise the religious education curriculum by Anné H. Verhoef

“…God as the Trinity has throughout the history of Atlantic slavery and colonialism been employed to legitimise colonial rule and it, therefore, needs to be decolonised. …”
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"إنهاض المجتمع وتنوير العقل: دراسة في روايات طه حسين ونذير أحمد Raising of Society and Enlightenment of Minds: A Study of Novels of Taha Hussein and Deputy Nazir Ahmad "... by فوزیہ جبین, د۔سلمۃ فردوس سھول

“…"Egyptian society and Indian society faced many social issues, especially during the British colonial rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. …”
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Colonial Legacy and Its Impact: Analysing Political Instability and Economic Underdevelopment in Post-colonial Africa by Wu Yuning

“…It investigates how various forms of colonial rule have shaped African institutional frameworks and led to a persistence of colonial institutional structures and normative governance theories across time. …”
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Envisioning Indigenous education sovereignty through story: Our education, our way by Michelle Bishop

“…These conversations do not subscribe to Western notions of “progress”, nor start from a premise that colonial rule is ever-lasting. This research contends with Indigenous education sovereignty for our grandchildren’s grandchildren. …”
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THE NAHDLATUL ULAMA: Its Early History and Contribution to the Establishment of Indonesian State by Faisal Ismail

“…Furthermore, together with other nationalist movements, the Nahdlatul Ulama actively took part in the process of establishing the Indonesian State and in the war to defend the Indonesian independence against the Dutch who tried to re-establish their colonial rule in Indonesia. These facts, undoubtedly, proved that the Nahdlatul Ulama made a great contribution to the nation and state of Indonesia.…”
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