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Define and rule native as political identity

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Johannesburg Wits University Press 2013Description: 154 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780674050525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.3MAM
Summary: Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according to tribe. Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference.
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Book Book UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 325.3MAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 001719

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-148) and index.

Define and Rule focuses on the turn in late nineteenth-century colonial statecraft when Britain abandoned the attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance, as the definition and management of difference. Mahmood Mamdani explores how lines were drawn between settler and native as distinct political identities, and between natives according to tribe. Out of that colonial experience issued a modern language of pluralism and difference.

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