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Decolonisation of Asia

The decolonisation of Asia was the gradual growth of independence movements in Asia, leading ultimately to the retreat of foreign powers and the creation of several nation-states in the region.

British Burma (1824–1948, merged with India by the British from 1886 to 1937)

British rule in Burma

British Ceylon (1815–1948, now Sri Lanka)

British Ceylon

British Hong Kong (1842–1997)

British Hong Kong

Colonial India (includes the territory of present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh)

British Raj

 

Manchukuo

French Indochina

French Indochinese Union

French India

Taiwan

Keelung

(1845)

Basilan

China

Kouang-Tchéou-Wan

Palestine

Syria

Alawite State

Lebanon

Mount Lebanon

Yemen

Cheikh Saïd

United Nations list of non-self-governing territories

List of dependent territories

List of predecessors of sovereign states in Asia

Colonialism

Persian Gulf Residency

Imperialism in Asia

Taiwan under Japanese rule

Decolonisation

Wars of national liberation

(1953) Asia and Western Dominance, 1498–1945, London: G. Allen and Unwin.

Panikkar, K. M.