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Indirect rule
About: Indirect rule is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 571 publications have been published within this topic receiving 9535 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy - a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects.
Abstract: In analysing the obstacles to democratisation in post-independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy - a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organised local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant - apartheid - as exceptional This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralised despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicites, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa
593 citations
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31 Mar 2008
TL;DR: The making of radio in Nigeria was studied in this article, where Majigi et al. discussed the infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and indirect rule of radio broadcasting in Nigeria.
Abstract: Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Infrastructure, the Colonial Sublime, and Indirect Rule 16 2. Unstable Objects: The Making of Radio in Nigeria 48 3. Majigi, Colonial Film, State Publicity, and the Political Form of Cinema 73 4. Colonialism and the Built Space of Cinema 123 5. Immaterial Urbanism and the Cinematic Event 146 6. Extravagant Aesthetics: Instability and the Excessive World of Nigerian Film 168 7. Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy 217 Conclusion 242 Notes 257 Bibliography 277 Index 301
504 citations
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18 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the ideological origins of indirect rule are discussed, focusing on the crisis of liberal Imperialism and the origins of social theory. But, they do not consider the role of the Native American people in this process.
Abstract: Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION: The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule 1 CHAPTER ONE: The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism 21 CHAPTER TWO: Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory 56 CHAPTER THREE: Codification in the East andWest 89 CHAPTER FOUR: The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property 119 CHAPTER FIVE: Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule 148 CODA: Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered 179 Notes 189 Bibliography 227 Index 255
294 citations
TL;DR: This article investigated the developmental legacies of British colonial rule and found that indirect colonial rule is strongly and negatively related to several different indicators of postcolonial political development while controlling for other factors, and provided evidence that the present levels of political development among former British colonies have historical roots and have been shaped by the extent to which they were ruled either directly or indirectly during the colonial period.
289 citations
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01 Nov 1996
TL;DR: The 'Grand Model' of colonial town planning is discussed in this paper, where a great workshop is described for managing trade and labour in the tropical colonies and the rise of the professional town planner is discussed.
Abstract: Introduction. The 'Grand Model' of colonial town planning. 'A great workshop': managing trade and labour in the tropical colonies. Race, segregation and Indirect Rule. The rise of the professional town planner. Colonialism and traditional culture. Town planning and decolonization. The colonial legacy. Sources and references. Index
259 citations