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" The Northern Bahr al-Ghazal: People, alien encroachment and rule, 1856-1956 "
D. D. Majak Koejok
R. O. Collins
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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128000
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TL41699
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9104513
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D. D. Majak Koejok
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The Northern Bahr al-Ghazal: People, alien encroachment and rule, 1856-1956\ D. D. Majak KoejokR. O. Collins
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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1990
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Ph.D.
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1990
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392
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The Northern Bahr al-Ghazal is the land of the Nilotic people, principally the Malual Dinka and the Luo. During the middle of the nineteenth century and even into the middle of the twentieth century, the Northern Bahr al-Ghazal was exposed to a series of invasions from the Northern Sudan and Central Africa with the intention of influencing its affairs, but without success. The purpose of this study is to describe and discuss in depth the theme of the dissertation which is the determination of the people of the Northern Bahr al-Ghazal to resist foreign encroachment and its impact in defense of their integrity and sovereignty. The first chapter is an introduction which outlines the main issues involved in the thesis as well as it explains the sources consulted for its writing. The second chapter is a background to settlement in the territory. It deals with the people, their origins, their institutions and relationships between the people and the neighboring ethnic communities in the south and north of the Sudan. They were not always hostile. Under the traditional chiefs, there was largely peace which was overshadowed by the British imperium during the twentieth century. The third chapter examines encroachment from 1856-1869 and the activities of the slave traders and the role of the travelers and explorers in the area. The fourth chapter describes the early establishment of foreign rule; the Turco-Egyptian era, 1870-1884, the Mahdist era, 1884-1896 and the French appearance in 1896-1898. The fifth chapter deals with the British annexation of the Northern Bahr al-Ghazal and the Arianhdit resistance and the defeat by the British forces and pacification in the territory. The sixth chapter examines the British administration and its maintenance of law and order through the courts system, settlements of inter-district and inter-provincial disputes, and the Thuri resettlement and enforcement of the Southern policy. The seventh chapter discusses British economic, cultural and social policies which aimed at modernizing and changing the way of life and popular response to them. Finally, the eighth or the concluding chapter addresses the issues in this study: historical and contemporary effects of the traditional conflicts in the area, relationships between the rural communities and the central government of the time, comparison of different viewpoints as they appear in oral traditions and in administrative and missionary records and the survival of the traditional culture or its adaptation during the period of a hundred years.
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Social sciences; Sudan; African history; 0331:African history
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R. O. Collins
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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