...their views and ideals of life are extremely difficult for an Englishman to understand. It is therefore certain that even an imperfect and tyrannical native...localities should be administered on European principles by European officials, partly to serve as types to which the INTRODUCTION xxiii native governments...

...European supervision, would be in the early stages productive of far less discomfort to its subjects tban well-intentioned but ill-directed efforts of European...policy of ruling on African principles through native lulers must be followed for the present. Yet it is desirable that considerable districts in suitable...

...their views and ideas of life are extremely difficult for an Englishman to understand. It is therefore certain that even an imperfect and tyrannical native...localities should be administered on European principles by European officials, partly to serve as types to which the native governments may gradually approximate,...

...their views and ideas of life are extremely difficult for an Englishman to understand. It is therefore certain that even an imperfect and tyrannical native...localities should be administered on European principles by European officials, partly to serve as types to which the native governments may gradually approximate,...

...with sympathy and introspective powers. If the welfare of the native races is to be considered, and if dangerous revolts are to be obviated, the general...through native rulers must be followed for the present." — Sir GEORGE GOLDIE, Preface to Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger, by Seymour Vandeleur. IN...

...with sympathy and introspective powers. If the welfare of the native races is to be considered, and if dangerous revolts are to be obviated, the general...principles through native rulers must be followed for the present."—Sir GEORGE GOLDIE, Preface to Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger, by Seymour Vandeleur....

...George Goldie in 1898 stated as his considered opinion that : even an imperfect and tyrannical native administration, if its extreme excesses were controlled...through native rulers must be followed for the present." ' Beyond the barbarous tribes of the Delta in the more civilised Emirates of the North this was the...

...the Royal Niger Company, had formulated a dictum that all company officials were required to follow: "The general policy of ruling on African principles through native rulers must be followed for the present."30 Indirect rule came to be predicated on a form of decentralization that was more cultural...

...first nominal ruler but actual exploiter, Sir George Taubman Goldie, in 1897. In that year he declared: "If the welfare of the native races is to be considered,...through native rulers must be followed for the present". He however did nothing practical to realize this ideal. This was left to Sir Frederick (later Lord)...

...dangerous revolts 1 Burns, p. 163. 1 African Survey, p. 527. are to be obviated, the general principles of ruling on African principles through native rulers must be followed for the present.' l As a corollary it followed that, alongside the native administration, there should be ' colonial...