Define and Rule Native As Political Identity

Name: Define and Rule Native As Political Identity
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ISBN: 9780674050525

ISBN-10: 0674050525

ISBN-13: 9780674050525

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mahmood Mamdani

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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.A mid-nineteenth-century crisis of empire attracted the attention of British intellectuals and led to a reconception of the colonial mission, and to reforms in India, British Malaya, and the Dutch East…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Mahmood Mamdani is Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University and Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University