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Trace the growth of British imperialism in South Africa from 1800 to 1907.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Imperialism and Colonialism

British power in South Africa grew from an initial strategic occupation of a way-station on the India route into a continent-spanning settler empire built on conquest, mineral wealth, and the defeat of rival white settler republics.

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  • From Dutch Cape Colony to British Possession
  • Settler Colonisation and the 1820 Settlers
  • The Great Trek and the Boer Republics
  • Consolidation, Annexation, and the First Boer War
  • Diamonds, Gold, and Cecil Rhodes
  • The Second Boer War and Union

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