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Analysing public expenditure trends confirms that British rule in colonial India and Africa followed no discernible external logic of promoting political ‘responsibility’ or ‘capacity’. Instead, its chief purpose was to maintain the convenience of British rule.
the impact of colonial rule. I nd evidence that colonial annexation policy was highly selective and concentrated on areas with high agricultural potential. The IV estimates show that areas under direct British rule have signi cantly lower levels of public goods in the present period.
From 1764 onward, British India’s political residency system grew until, by the 1880s, it came to encompass nearly 45 percent of South Asia and Burma, part of Siam, roughly 35 percent of Southwest Asia,13 and even part of East Africa. By the 1890s, it had expanded into Central Asia.
1 Ιαν 2012 · colonial penetration of South and Southeast Asia mainly under the British, the French, and the Dutch, and Africa by several West European colonizing powers intensified considerably, bringing...
Abstract. Current political order in Africa is often linked to legacies of colonialism, in particular to legacies of indirect colonial rule. However, evidence about the application of indirect rule is scarce. In this paper I argue that empire-level characteristics interacted with precolonial institutions in shaping the indirectness of local rule.
(2007) find that islands with longer periods of colonial rule have better present-day out-comes; Bertocchi and Canova (2002) find that the post-independence economic performance of British colonies in Africa is less volatile than that of French and German colonies.
1 Σεπ 2019 · There is evidence of democratic advantages at independence among indirectly ruled British colonies, British colonies without metropolitan legal institutions, short-ruled British colonies, and when subsetting the data to only include Sub-Saharan African colonies.
