51. Taking literally some of the more bellicose statements about holding host countries responsible would require the United States to become a new colonial power in the region. 52. Such money became obsolete after the turn of the century when colonial powers replaced it with their own coinage. 53. Subaltern originally meant a junior officer in the British Army, but it has been co-opted by academics studying groups particularly oppressed by colonial powers. 54. That has allowed it to move out from the shadows of former colonial powers like France and Belgium. 55. That year the country became independent through a political revolution in Portugal, the colonial power in Angola. 56. That would only encourage other colonial powers to carve up the country among themselves. 57. The best African players, such as Eusebio and Mario Coluna of Mozambique and Portugal, represented colonial powers in international competitions. 58. The British government, long the colonial power in India, pays for the project and is one of the largest foreign aid donors supporting health programs here. 59. The charge, brought under a law drawn up by Britain when it was the colonial power in India, can bring a penalty of two years in prison. 60. The British had given the zamindars land, and in return the zamindars had leased the land to farmers and paid revenues to the colonial power. |