83 While new villages were primarily – although not always exclusively – designed to accommodate Malaya's Chinese inhabitants, there was a concern throughout the period of the emergency that Chinese people were unlawfully occupying land in Malay reservations and forest reserves, as well as land ...
166). Laura de Mello e Souza, the Brazilian historian who specialized in the history of Minas, explains that in the coastal cities of the Northeast, where Portuguese colonization began, the State and society functioned as one: urban planning, where there was always the cidade alta and the ...
At first, compared with Calcutta (nowKolkata) and Madras (nowChennai), Bombay—as it was called by the British—was not a greatassetto the company but merely helped it keep a toehold on the west coast. On the mainland theMughalsin the north, theMarathas(under the venerated leader Chhatrap...