Transcription of Indo-china
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29 The nationalist Movement in Indo-ChinaVietnam gained formal independence in 1945, before India, butit took another three decades of fighting before the Republicof Vietnam was formed. This chapter on Indo-china willintroduce you to one of the important states of the peninsula, namely,Vietnam. Nationalism in Indo-china developed in a colonial knitting together of a modern Vietnamese nation that broughtthe different communities together was in part the result ofcolonisation but, as importantly, it was shaped by the struggle againstcolonial you see the historical experience of Indo-china in relation to thatof India, you will discover important differences in the way colonialempires functioned and the anti-imperial movement developed.
The Nationalist Movement in Indo-China Fig. 3 – Francis Garnier, a French officer who led an attack against the ruling Nguyen dynasty, being killed by soldiers of the court. Garnier was part of the French team that explored the Mekong river. In 1873 he was commissioned by the French to try and establish a French colony in Tonkin in the north.
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