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The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures: Define and Rule : Native As Political Identity by Mahmood. Mamdani (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674050525
ISBN-139780674050525
eBay Product ID (ePID)117313597
Product Key Features
Number of Pages160 Pages
Publication NameDefine and Rule : Native As Political Identity
LanguageEnglish
SubjectModern / General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
AuthorMahmood. Mamdani
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
SeriesThe W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width7.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-004821
ReviewsIn Define and Rule , Mahmood Mamdani considers the empire of so-called 'indirect rule' and argues that, far from being a weak state, as has long been assumed, indirect rule embodied a distinctly modern political rationality. This book is a much-needed historiographic and contemporary-political intervention. It is vintage Mamdani: erudite, pathbreaking, and a profound challenge to conventional wisdom., Mamdani 's book raises critical queries of colonial intervention in the lives of the colonized and how they are articulated in their theories to look upon themselves, and to take on their political and historical nativist subjectivities. Couched in the simple idiom of an astute political analyst the academic-cum-theoretician has produced a thesis of nativism and counter theory that is bound to lead on to new intellectual grounds and initiate newer debates.
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number12
Dewey Decimal325.3
SynopsisDefine 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 Indies. The new politics, inspired by Sir Henry Maine, established that natives were bound by geography and custom, rather than history and law, and made this the basis of administrative practice. Maine's theories were later translated into "native administration" in the African colonies. Mamdani takes the case of Sudan to demonstrate how colonial law established tribal identity as the basis for determining access to land and political power, and follows this law's legacy to contemporary Darfur. He considers the intellectual and political dimensions of African movements toward decolonization by focusing on two key figures: the Nigerian historian Yusuf Bala Usman, who argued for an alternative to colonial historiography, and Tanzania's first president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who realized that colonialism's political logic was legal and administrative, not military, and could be dismantled through nonviolent reforms., When Britain abandoned its attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance as the definition and management of difference, lines of political identity were drawn between settler and native, and between natives according to tribe. Out of this colonial experience arose a language of pluralism.
LC Classification NumberJV412.M36 2012
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