Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

by Mahmood Mamdani

In 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.

• ISBN13: 9780674067356
• Publish Date: 14 May 2014 (first published 29 November 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Harvard University Press
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 168
• Language: English
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