British Colonial Administration and Development of Western Education in Ilorin Emirate, 1900–1960

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Eliasu Yahaya
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Western Education ◽  
British Colonial

The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (11) ◽  
pp. 3170-3198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo Xu
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Tax Exemptions ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
And Performance

I combine newly digitized personnel and public finance data from the British colonial administration for the period 1854–1966 to study how patronage affects the promotion and incentives of governors. Governors are more likely to be promoted to higher salaried colonies when connected to their superior during the period of patronage. Once allocated, they provide more tax exemptions, raise less revenue, and invest less. The promotion and performance gaps disappear after the abolition of patronage appointments. Patronage therefore distorts the allocation of public sector positions and reduces the incentives of favored bureaucrats to perform. (JEL D73, F54, H83, J45, M51, N43, N44)

scholarly journals Forced Labour, Roads, and Chiefs: The Implementation of the ILO Forced Labour Convention in the Gold Coast

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-476
Author(s):  
Sarah Kunkel
Keyword(s):  
Gold Coast ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
The North ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Indirect Rule

AbstractThis article analyses the implications of the Forced Labour Convention of 1930 on colonial labour policies for road labour carried out under chiefs in the Gold Coast. The British colonial administration implemented a legal application of the convention that allowed the continuation of the existing system of public works. In the Gold Coast, the issue of road labour was most prominent in the North, where chiefs maintained the majority of roads. Indirect rule became crucial in retaining forced labour in compliance with the convention. This article focuses on “hidden strategies” of British colonialism after 1930, contrasting studies of blatant cases of forced labour. The analysis is based on a close scrutiny of the internal discourse among colonial officials on the question of road labour and the Forced Labour Convention.

The Christians of Jerusalem during the British Mandate, 1917–48

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-137
Author(s):  
Fawaz Awdat Alnaimatt
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Administration ◽  
British Mandate ◽  
Weekly Newspapers ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Foreign Ministry ◽  
British Colonies

This study sheds a light on the history of the Christians of Jerusalem during the period of occupation and the British Mandate, 1917–48. It relies on a set of sources and references, among the most important of which are reports, telegrams, messages and letters exchanged between the British leadership in Palestine and the British Foreign Ministry as well as the Ministry of British Colonies (British Colonial Administration); in addition to Palestinian daily and weekly newspapers; as well as modern sources, studies and memoirs.

From Traditional to British Currency in Southern Nigeria: Analysis of a Currency Revolution, 1880–1948

1979 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter I. Ofonagoro
Keyword(s):  
Political Control ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Legal Tender ◽  
Southern Nigeria ◽  
British Colonial

Soon after establishing political control, the British colonial administration in southern Nigeria attempted to replace the existing currencies of the country with British currency. The traditional currencies competently discharged the functions of money, however, and it required fifty years before the pre-colonial currencies, attacked by the colonial authorities and unrecognized as legal tender, gradually lost standing and proved worthless to their last holders. Theoretical implications of these developments are discussed.

The Establishment of the British Trade Agencies in Tibet: A Survey

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. McKay
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
British Trade ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Great Knowledge ◽  
Popular Image ◽  
Political Service

The popular image of pre-1950 Tibet is of a remote land seldom visited by outsiders. But more than a hundred British officials served in Tibet during the early part of this century. Between 1904 and 1947 Agents from the Indian Political Service, and supporting staff, were stationed in Gyantse and Yatung, under the control of the Political Officer in Sikkim. An Agency was also maintained at Gartok in Western Tibet, where a native officer was posted as the Trade Agent. After 1936 a mission was stationed at Lhasa. The last British official in Lhasa, Hugh Richardson, departed in 1950 following the Chinese invasion of Tibet. For the British Trade Agents, an almost forgotten section of British colonial administration in Asia, Tibet was an official posting. Their isolation, and the lack of trade, meant that they had the time to study a variety of aspects of Tibet, and to gain a great knowledge of the country and its people.

‘Beast of No Nation’: Bribery, Corruption and Late Colonial Administration in

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-106
Author(s):  
Katherine Isobel Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Colonial Texts ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Social Uses

Chapter Four explores the competing demands made upon young Nigerian civil servants in the colonial administration, through an examination of Chinua Achebe’s novel No Longer at Ease. The chapter contextualizes the social and sexual pressures under which the novel’s protagonist, Obi, buckles through discussion of contemporary popular culture and the experiences of real-life Nigerian colonial administrators. The novel is also discussed in relation to the British colonial texts to which it responds, notably Joyce Cary’s Mr Johnson and Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter. Achebe’s own reflections on the social uses of fiction are also considered. The chapter argues that as readers we are invited by Achebe into judgement of Obi, and in doing so we are brought into larger debates about the nation state and the law.

‘Seeking a Legal Form’: Joyce Cary’s

2019 ◽  
pp. 54-84
Author(s):  
Katherine Isobel Baxter
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Administration ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
The North ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Indirect Rule ◽  
District Commissioner

Chapter Three examines a later incarnation of the District Commissioner in Joyce Cary’s Mr Johnson. The chapter shows how, despite the novel’s ironic critiques of the figure of the District Commissioner and the policy of indirect rule, Cary reinstates the heroized exceptionalism dramatized in earlier popular District Commissioner fiction. The chapter also explores the precarious position of Mr Johnson himself as educated southerner within the administration of the North. The chapter presents the novel in terms of its animation of legal questions and the state of exception that underpinned indirect rule. The chapter’s discussion is contextualised through reference to W. R. Crocker’s scathing memoir of colonial service, Nigeria: A Critique of British Colonial Administration (1936).

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