HISTORY 2JJ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indirect Rule, Hutu, Buganda
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Belief in tradition europeans began outlining what african"s should look like, how they should behave. If we find out their knowledge we will know better how to control him. Indirect rule and creating their knowledge = benevolent form of colonialism, highest stage of colonial intervention. Each kingdom and society could be governed based non its needs and own practices: you could attune governance to local context governed to their own needs. Roots in racial debates and assimilationist thinking: trusteeship v eurocentric. Mamood mamdani: indirect rule as despotic despotism scholar. Customary law (native law) and civil law (for everyone else) Rise of destoolments more protests by educated scholars who were excluded under indirect rule. A solution to a problem of limited resources. Between 1900-1903 british subdued the sokoto caliphate and lugard transferred authority to emir"s. In n and e africa, eu administrations (in/direct) adopted strategies of non interference in islam and found it easier.