Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity

by Mahmood Mamdani

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050525
• ISBN13: 9780674050525
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.6"