Formation Of French Indo China


 
 
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Formation Of French Indo China

Vietnam gained formal independence in 1945, before India, but it took another three decades of fighting before the Republic of Vietnam was formed. Nationalism in Indo-China developed in a colonial context. The knitting together of a modern Vietnamese nation that brought the different communities together was in part the result of colonisation but, as importantly, it was shaped by the struggle against colonial domination.

Formation of French Indo China: Indo-China region comprises of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. People lived in these areas under the shadow of Chinese empire. Like the English and the Dutch, the French wanted to spread their colony in Asia.

After defeating China in 1860, France occupied Vietnam and Cambodia. Vietnam was also linked by the route called Maritime Silk Route that brought in goods, people and exchange of ideas.

Other networks of trade connected it to the hinterlands (rural areas) where non-Vietnamese people such as the Khmer Cambodians lived, France again defeated China in Franco-Chinese War in 1883-85 and occupied Tonkin and Anaam. In 1887, French Indo-China was formed. Later, France occupied Thailand and Laos and established a strong large empire in Asia.

 
 
 


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