PO319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indirect Rule, Congo Reform Association
4 Oct 2016
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A preference for ruling through existing authorities. If there is already a hierarchy in place it makes sense to go after them to get what they want. If there were existing hierarchies and the individuals would agree on things, then the. British would replace these people with others to keep the hierarchy in place. Good example of indirect rule is northern nigeria. When there weren"t a presence of resource and valuables, they wanted to just maintain order and power over the land. Indirect rule was quite useful because it saved them from investing a lot and have people were it was unnecessary to be. Within the framework of indirect rule there was no sense of african"s becoming british. We will let the existing structures remain in place. There was no culture to adapt for the. Direct rule was more of a priority from the french. Try to destroy institutions and hierarchy of power.
