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Your Reason has been Reported to the admin. Jamaica was sometimes viewed as part of the West Indies, but more often not. Included by British colonial authorities in a West Indian Federation, Jamaica exited in four years and the federation was dissolved. With the end of this short-lived federation of colonies, the British-ruled islands and territories rapidly evolved into a mosaic of 19 separate countries most independent, some remaining as British colonial outposts.
Parochialism and nationalism won over any sense of West Indianism. There are few citizens today in these counties who regard themselves foremost as West Indian.
French possessions were absorbed into the French Republic from Guadeloupe and Martinique have been departments of France since then. Dutch possessions remain today part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. These were joined as a single Netherland Antilles entity from , but by four of the six islands were absorbed into the Netherlands as counties, while Curacao and Aruba became autonomous states within the Kingdom. The terms West Indies and East Indies today The term West Indies applied to the Antilles gained some recognition from the 17th to the 20th centuries particularly in the British sphere of influence.
The term remains today in the names of some long-established intuitions — regional university, regional cricket team, West Indian law journal. The term is variable in geography, sometimes covering the islands of the Antilles, sometimes including all the countries with shores washed by the Caribbean Sea.
The term West Indies has become a historical anachronism, but still used by institutions created under British colonialism. The term East Indies is also in abeyance. The growing nationalist movement in the Dutch East Indies adopted the terms in to describe the country they envisaged would eventually replace the Dutch colony and a new nationality that would be hewn from the numerous cultures which inhabited the archipelago. There was no common language across the Dutch East Indies other than the use of Dutch by the elite.
So a new language was adopted and adapted from Malay trading languages in the late s by forward-looking revolutionaries, as the alternative to the Dutch language for an independent future Indonesia proclaimed its independence in and this new language, bahasa Indonesia, became the official language.
The Dutch fought for four years to re-subjugate what the Netherlands viewed as theirs, but withdrew in when defeat was inevitable. With their capitulation, the name East Indies disappeared from the world map. The Asian archipelago that was once was named East Indies after the multinational company that governed it no longer answers to that colonial label.
Indonesia filled the space of Dutch colonial creation. Indonesia now is a country of million and covering 15, islands. It had the historical benefit of a single colonial overlord and a revolutionary leadership from the s with vision of creating an Indonesian state out of a myriad of cultures, languages and religions. Enslaved Africans won freedom through a series of emancipation acts that applied to British, French, Danish and Dutch colonies of the Caribbean in , , and respectively.
The end of the trafficking of Africans and the loss of enslaved labour when emancipation acts came into force forced plantation owners to seek out new sources of cheap and compliant labour.
India was a major source. The East India Company and the successor imperial administrations agreed to establishment of agencies which allowed for recruitment of workers on contract. Labourers were transported to the Caribbean.
Transportation of unskilled labour from India to the Caribbean began in and ended in There was no labour recruitment in the east The Dutch colonial authorities, in addition to its participation in the recruitment of Indian labourers 34, between and , also made arrangements for the passage of 34, Javanese from what was then Dutch East Indies to Surinam between and So in Suriname, then and today, nomenclature was and is different.
It was not Columbus! Columbus was clearly not responsible for coining the term West Indies. The fact that many books and web pages say he did does not make it a truth. We conclude this essay on the note to students and teachers where we began: take care in verifying information gathered from search engines; undertake multiple cross check and make sure the sources you use are credible and reliable.
After 40 years in the West Indies, he moved to the East Indies in and currently lives in Jakarta. He is convinced, as are a few others, that more comparative studies of the two archipelagos would enhance our understanding of both Dwayne Morrissey Carruthers provided insightful suggestions on an earlier draft of this article. Lembara Sejarah, Vol. The Idea of Indonesia. However, more people are visiting Cuba now than even just a few years ago.
The Lesser Antilles is another collection of islands within the West Indies. Kitts and Nevis, Saba, St. Martin, and Anguilla. Vincent, and the Grenadines, Dominica , and St. All of these island countries are popular tourist destinations because of their beautiful beaches, crystal blue water, tropical forests, and other natural features.
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