INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Modern Primitive, Indirect Rule, Social Darwinism

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

Key words: institutions of power, indirect rule, social darwinism, modern primitive binary, customary law, politicized ethnic identity. 3 institutions of power: map, census, museum. Linkage between nationalism and modern technologies (colonial inheritance) British indirect rule: shift from direct rule (assimilation) to indirect rule (management of differences) in. British colonies: local uprisings in colonies mid 19th century (india) Indirect rule as protecting natives: rhetoric of protection, the reality is that they were establishing unchallengeable colonial legitimacy and hegemony, institutionalization of difference occurred (settler and native binary creation, institutionalization of traditions and customs (tied to native groups. Civilized : ruled by unwritten customary law, institutionalizing of modern-primative binary through legal systems (colonialists=modern, natives=primitve) Colonialism also led to the importation of labourers to different countries, creating political identities in colonies with many import labourers given political identities e. g. eurasians. Post-colonial identity: political identities created with strong attachments.