Darfur and the British: A Sourcebook - Couverture rigide

O'Fahey, R. S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1850659486 ISBN 13 : 9781850659488

Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

The British were in Darfur for only forty years (1916-56) and, administratively, their impact was minimal. In retrospect, their most important role was in recording and codifying the customary law and administrative practice under the sultans. The present volume presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 and 1974 and of which the originals were subsequently destroyed
by accident.

Darfur was unique in a Sudanese colonial context in that in 1916 the British conquered a functioning multi-ethnic African Muslim state. Their policy in the forty years of their rule was largely to maintain the system they had inherited from the sultans. Although they made some administrative modifications, it was only in the last few years before independence in 1956 that tentative steps were taken towards change, for example the introduction of local government in the towns.

The material described here, a combination of administrative practice and ethnographic reporting, is far from simply academic in importance, but is invaluable on such issues as land tenure, agricultural practice, grazing rights and livestock migration routes, tribal administration and compensation for injury and death.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

R. S. O'Fahey is Professor of History in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, University of Bergen, Norway.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1850659486
• ISBN 13: 9781850659488
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 356
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