#britishyoke — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #britishyoke, aggregated by home.social.
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#IndigoRevolt captures stark differences between 19th c #Hindu #cultivators (#ryot) in #BritishIndia & #Jewish ones from same time in what is now known as #Israel
Under #BritishYoke, ryots in the #India #colony were FORCED to plant #indigo instead of food crops on their own lands
When groups of settlers BOUGHT #ME land to cultivate it for themselves because they were barred from that in lands they had fled due to persecution, eg #Romania, #colonies meant something else