Movements Against Imperial Rule

Movements that challenged colonial or imperial rule and sought independence or self-government, including the Spanish American wars of independence, the wider process of decolonization and the Indonesian Sarekat Islam. A movement belongs here when its cited source describes opposition to rule by an outside power. The group sits under the Independence and Anti-Colonial Movements subcategory of the Political Atlas and helps a reader browse that subcategory by the empire or colonial power each movement opposed. Each member is placed on the strength of the page it cites, so a reader can follow the grouping back to a stated source.