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College Endowments: A Colonial Empire
In 1793, General Cornwallis, one of the leading British generals in the American Revolutionary War and later, the Governor-General of India, introduced the Permanent Settlement Act to the Indian territory of Bengal, which instituted the zamindari land ownership system into Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, and Varanasi. Under the zamindari system, each region would have an appointed…
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South African Murder Spurs Unrest
This Saturday, South African Eugene Terreblanche was found bludgeoned to death on his farm in northern South Africa. Officials believe that his murder is due to a salary dispute with two farm workers. He is known as the founder of AWB, a white supremacist group created in 1973 to ostensibly protect the rights of the…
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