British West Indies

基本解釋

Antigua, British Colonies in West Indies, Slave Trade, Sugar Plantations.
安地卡，西印度英屬地，奴隸販賣，蔗園。
British English is spoken in the West Indies, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.
西印度、英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭和非洲講英式英語。
The capital of St. Lucia, in the Windward Islands of the British West Indies. It was founded by the French in1650. Population, 50, 798.
卡斯特得斯圣盧西亞的首府，位于英屬西印度群島的迎風(fēng)群島上。由法國人在1650年創(chuàng)建。人口50，798。

"When I was reared in the British West Indies my grandmother used to always tell me, you may not be loved by certain forces in a society and you have to understand why.

What strikes the author most is the uncertainty and flux of their lives as they and their circle improvised their way through the confusion of French, Spanish and British jurisdictions in the West Indies and America, and through the creeping, morphing status of the British in India.
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The number could be cut down if existing groupings could be widened—for instance if Malaya could federate with Sarawak and Borneo, British Guiana with the West Indies.
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Ten British colonies formed a pre-independence Federation of the West Indies in 1958.
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