Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity: 12 (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

by Mahmood Mamdani (Author)

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  2012

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  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.