WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Under indirect rule, local rulers were allowed to keep their authority and status in a new colonial setting. This made access to the region’s natural resources easier. Indirect rule was cheaper because fewer officials had to be trained. It also affected local culture less.

Detailed explanation-2: -Indirect rule allowed local rulers to maintain their possession of authority and states in a new colonial setting. Direct rule replaced local elites with a new set of officials brought from the mother country, mostly because they local elites resisted the foreign conquest.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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-5: -Indirect rule was a system of governance used by the British and others to control parts of their colonial empires, particularly in Africa and Asia, which was done through pre-existing indigenous power structures.