Define and Rule: Native as Political IdentityHarvard University Press, 2012 M10 30 - 160 pages 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. |
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The Theory Sir Henry Maine and the Post1857 Crisis of Empire | 6 |
The Practice | 43 |
3 Beyond Settlers and Natives The Theory and Practice of Decolonization | 85 |
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