Indirect rule was a system of governance used by imperial powers to control parts of their empires. This was particularly used by colonial empires like...

be known as Nigeria, a form of rule which was both autocratic and bureaucratic. After initially adopting an indirect rule approach, in 1906 the British...

government. Indirect rule maintains good pre-colonial institutions and fosters development within the local culture. Mamdani classifies indirect rule as “decentralized...

are sometimes called open rule and disguised rule. Disguised rule may take the form of either civilianization or indirect rule. Civilianization occurs when...

direct rule as centralized despotism: a system where natives were not considered citizens. The opposite of direct colonial rule is indirect rule, which...

Swazi take their names from Mswati II, the 19th-century king under whose rule the country was expanded and unified; its boundaries were drawn up in 1881...

1920s and 1930s. During this period, the colonial government favored indirect rule, which allowed Britain to govern through indigenous leaders. In Sudan...

notwithstanding, indirect rule had the ultimate advantage of guaranteeing the maintenance of law and order. The application of indirect rule in the Gold Coast...

British Paramountcy. British protectorates were therefore governed by indirect rule. In most cases, the local ruler, as well as the subjects of the indigenous...

‘Indirect Rule’, in which the colonial rulers left the traditional social structures intact. The fact that the Sokoto Caliphate of 1804 was a rule of...

colonial officials believed indirect rule was more adaptive and culturally sensitive, far superior to direct rule, in that indirect rule allowed for social development...

excluded from all but the lowest level of the colonial government. Indirect rule is a system of government used by the British and French to control...

for millennia. It is the traditional state of the Dabo dynasty who have ruled as emirs over the city-state since the 19th century. Kano Emirate Council...

administration, and they numbered 105 in 1949. . They represented a form of the Indirect rule which had become popular in British African dependencies in the second...

colonial policy of indirect rule and being labelled a first class Oba among traditional rulers in Yorubaland. The policy of indirect rule was used to ensure...

by Britain on 6 December 1946. Under colonial rule, Cameroons was ruled on the basis of indirect rule which allowed natives to execute judicial and executive...

it and indirectly by disadvantaging small producers who cannot afford strong anti-piracy measures, bringing into doubt the ability of the rule being able...

importantly remembered for his political system of rule which was practised in Nigeria, called indirect rule, particularly in Igboland. About a year after...

select the governors and other officials in the colony. This type of indirect rule eventually fell out of favour in the English colonial empire due to...

consolidated power over the combined region. It was followed by the direct and indirect rule of the Qing Dynasty, which started in 1720 by the Qianlong Emperor and...

as French protectorates. However, the differences between direct and indirect rule "was a legal rather than a practical one".[citation needed] Political...

retained the monarchs of both Rwanda and Burundi under the policy of indirect rule. Mwambutsa IV was born Prince Bangiricenge in c. 1912 at Nyabiyogi,...

center, the traditional monarchy has been either a tool of British indirect rule or a legally recognised traditional polity within the republic of Nigeria...

subcontinent which were under direct British administration, but rather under indirect rule, subject to subsidiary alliances. Things moved quickly after the partition...

government among its four territorial possessions in the Gold Coast. Indirect rule was implemented in the late 19th century after its success in Northern...

(Mogalakwe, 2006)." (from T. E. Malebeswa (2020): Tribal Territories Act, indirect rule, chiefs and subjects) Mackenzie, John (1887). Austral Africa: Losing...

such an alliance, the Company welcomed it as an economical method of indirect rule, which did not involve the economic costs of direct administration or...

British set up administrative and legal structures while practicing indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms. Nigeria became a formally independent...

governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy...

state continuing as the agent of indirect rule. Occasionally, a protectorate was established by another form of indirect rule: a chartered company, which becomes...