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The Seychelles were colonized by the French in 1756 to establish spice plantations to compete with the Dutch monopoly. The islands were captured by the English in 1794. Subsequently, Britain offered to return Mauritius and its dependencies, which included the Seychelles, to France if that country would renounce all claims in India. France refused and the Seychelles were formally ceded to Britain as a dependency of Mauritius. In Nov. 1903 the Seychelles archipelago became a separate British Crown Colony. Internal self-government was achieved on 1 Oct. 1975 and independence as a republic within the British Commonwealth on 29 June 1976.
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Scarr, D., Seychelles Since 1970: History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society. Africa World Press, Lawrenceville (NJ), 2000
National Statistical Office: Statistics and Database Administration Section (MISD), P. O. Box 206, Victoria, Mahé. Seychelles in Figures
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Turner, B. (2009). Seychelles. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2010. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58632-5_263
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