Indirect Rule

The system of Indirect Rule would have been the subject of experiments in Scotland at the end of the 16th century. It was applied to manage essentially all British colonies afterwards. In short, The British rulers ally themselves with the local aboriginal rulers by granting them great local power in exchange for their collaboration in all matters important to the real masters.

On British Indirect Rule

• British Colonial Policies, Wallace Mills's History Courses at Saint Mary's University
• Readings on British Colonial Policies and Indirect Rule, Wallace Mills's History Courses
• The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, by Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard
• Lugard and Indirect Rule over Nigeria

at Saint Mary's University

• Indirect Rule in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cameroon by Nantang Ben Jua
• Consequences of Indirect Rule in Asia
• Colonial Rule In Ghana
• Indirect Rule over Nigeria
• The British Raj - The British Conquest of India

Indirect Rule over Quebec

• The Negro-King Theory of André Laurendeau, by Claude Bélanger, Marianopolis College
• The father of our country? The 1774 Quebec Act of Guy Carleton
• Maurice Duplessis à l'Assemblée nationale: la théorie du roi nègre (French)
• Indirect Rule for Québec (French)
• A Popular History of the Other Canada (French)
• C-20 clarifies Everything (French)

See also

• French Approaches in Colonial Policy, Wallace Mills's History Courses at Saint Mary's University
• Readings on French Colonial Policies, Wallace Mills's History Courses at Saint Mary's University