During colonial British rule in India the following head of states had 21 gun salutes based on prosperity rather than military capability:

President Habibie saw such an arrangement as implying "colonial rule" by Indonesia and he decided to call a snap referendum on the issue.

Henceforth, together with other wealthy landowners of the region, he spoke out openly against colonial Spanish rule.

Over the following two hundred years colonial rule gradually imposed Spanish cultural standards on the subjugated peoples.

However, many others have established colonial rules, so it is not uniquely a Western phenomenon.

For more than a century France maintained colonial rule in Algerian territory.

In India, the concept of the whip was inherited from colonial British rule.

For the 1946 version, Hergé also made several changes to the actual story, such as cutting many of the references to Belgium and colonial rule.

They have had three or four generation of colonial British rule.

They wanted self-government, charging that only colonial rule prevented the unshackling of progressive forces in Nigeria and other states.