The History Of British Indian Ocean Territory

Author : Stephen Allen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319785419
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory written by Stephen Allen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field. It examines the broader significance of the ongoing Bancoult litigation in the UK Courts, the Chagos Islanders' petition to the European Court of Human Rights and Mauritius' successful challenge, under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, to the UK government's creation of a Marine Protected Area around the Chagos Archipelago. This book, produced in response to the 50th anniversary of the BIOT's founding, also assesses the impact of the decisions taken in respect of the Territory against a wider background of decolonization while addressing important questions about the lawfulness of maintaining Overseas Territories in the post-colonial era.The chapter ‘Anachronistic As Colonial Remnants May Be...’ - Locating the Rights of the Chagos Islanders As A Case Study of the Operation of Human Rights Law in Colonial Territories is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Author : Kevin Petit
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981772315
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of British Indian Ocean Territory written by Kevin Petit and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Indian Ocean Territory. The History, Environment and the other Truth. Is one of the most remote places on Earth. It is located mid-way between Indonesia and Tanzania and the BIOT's closest neighbor is The Maldives to its north. The Territory is comprised of seven atolls known as the Chagos Archipelago with more than 1,000 small islands. These islands are mostly coralline structures formed by underwater volcanos. The largest island, which is also the most southerly, is Diego Garcia and is used as an American military base. The Chagos Archipelago was originally chartered by Vasco de Gama in the 1500s, but wasn't colonized until the eighteenth century when the French claimed the archipelago as a part of Mauritius. The islands were settled by African slaves and Indian contractors who worked on the coconut plantations. In 1810, Mauritius became a colony of the United Kingdom and in 1965, the United Kingdom split Mauritius and the Seychelles to make the British Indian Ocean Territory. This strange decision was fueled by the creation of an American military base. The islands from the Seychelles were later returned to the jurisdiction of that country after it gained independence in 1976.

Author : Declan Gray
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976325250
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Indian Ocean Territory written by Declan Gray and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photius Coutsoukis provides a 2001 profile of the British Indian Ocean Territory, an archipelago of more than 2,300 islands. The profile includes information about the geography, population, economy, government, leaders, military, transportation, communications, and international issues of the territory. This information was obtained from the 2001 U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) World Factbook. Links to Web sites that offer maps and images of the flag of the territory are available.

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ISBN 13 : 9781908787217
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Britain's Treasure Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782254749
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chagos Islanders and International Law written by Stephen Allen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, the UK excised the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) in connection with the founding of a US military facility on the island of Diego Garcia. Consequently, the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands were secretly exiled to Mauritius, where they became chronically impoverished. This book considers the resonance of international law for the Chagos Islanders. It advances the argument that BIOT constitutes a 'Non-Self-Governing Territory' pursuant to the provisions of Chapter XI of the UN Charter and for the wider purposes of international law. In addition, the book explores the extent to which the right of self-determination, indigenous land rights and a range of obligations contained in applicable human rights treaties could support the Chagossian right to return to BIOT. However, the rights of the Chagos Islanders are premised on the assumption that the UK possesses a valid sovereignty claim over BIOT. The evidence suggests that this claim is questionable and it is disputed by Mauritius. Consequently, the Mauritian claim threatens to compromise the entitlements of the Chagos Islanders in respect of BIOT as a matter of international law. This book illustrates the ongoing problems arising from international law's endorsement of the territorial integrity of colonial units for the purpose of decolonisation at the expense of the countervailing claims of colonial self-determination by non-European peoples that inhabited the same colonial unit. The book uses the competing claims to the Chagos Islands to demonstrate the need for a more nuanced approach to the resolution of sovereignty disputes resulting from the legacy of European colonialism.

Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022603836X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islanded written by Sujit Sivasundaram and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided. Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka to read the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.

Author : Nigel Wenban-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995459601
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chagos written by Nigel Wenban-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Vine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691149836
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island of Shame written by David Vine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Vine recounts how the British & US governments created the Diego Garcia base, making the native Chagossians homeless in the process. He details the strategic significance of this remote location & also describes recent efforts by the exiles to regain their territory.

Author : Milo Kearney
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415312783
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Ocean in World History written by Milo Kearney and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the Indian Ocean provides a snapshot of many of the key issues in world history.

Author : Edward A. Alpers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195337875
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Ocean in World History written by Edward A. Alpers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Ocean in World History explores the cultural exchanges that took place in this region from ancient to modern times.