COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Direct rule set up governments run by local people; indirect rule set up a government controlled by royal officials.
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Under direct rule, European officials and soldiers governed colonies;indirect rule used appointed locals to govern colonies.
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Direct rule set up western democracy over colonies; indirect rule allowed colonies to govern themselves.
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Under direct rule, a European monarch ruled the colony; indirect rule let colonies self-govern with no intervention.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Direct rule set up governments run by local people; indirect rule set up a government controlled by royal officials. Under direct rule, European officials and soldiers governed colonies; indirect rule used appointed locals to govern colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Indirect and direct rule thus had opposite effects on pre-colonial structures of power: indirect rule aimed to preserve them, while direct rule was intended to eradicate and replace them with a new colonial order.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani classifies direct rule as centralized despotism: a system where natives were not considered citizens. The opposite of direct colonial rule is indirect rule, which integrates pre-established local elites and native institutions into the government.
Detailed explanation-4: -Indirect rule was the plan to use existing tribal structures and traditions as conduits for establishing rules and regulations while English officials worked behind the scenes and could exercise a veto power.
Detailed explanation-5: -Direct colonial rule was a form of colonialism that involves the establishment of a centralized foreign authority within a territory, which is run by colonial officials. The native population may be excluded from all but the lowest level of the colonial government.