British colony

Representational image of Caribbean island nation. Photo: Collected
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Antigua and Barbuda planning vote to become republic within 3 years

The Duchess of Kent, seated center on dais, reads a message from the Queen of England in the Parliament House at Accra, Ghana, on March 6, 1957. Ghana, the British colony known as the Gold Coast, is the first black African nation to gain independence from colonial rule. Seated at right is the Governor General Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke and at far right is Lady Arden-Clarke. (AP Photo)
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'I cannot mourn': Former colonies conflicted over the queen

The East India Company convoy. Illustration: Nicholas Pocock/Wikimedia Commons
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How Chattogram narrowly missed becoming East India Company’s Bengal headquarter

Illustration: Manobendro Golder
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Remnants of British Raj in Bangladeshi bureaucracy