As a principle of administration, indirect rule is essentially a system of local government, in theory functioning through local native tribal institutions. Admirable as this principle may be in ...

British rule in the country utilized a blend of direct and indirect governance methods, encompassing various administrative, economic, and social strategies.

KAVITA SARASWATHI DATLA, The Origins of Indirect Rule in India: Hyderabad and the British Imperial Order, Law and History Review, Vol. 33, No. 2 (May 2015), pp. 321-350 ...

As a result of the policy of indirect rule which British administrators introduced into the Colony of the Gold Coast at the turn of the twentieth century, customary courts, or what were called Native ...

Indirect rule is being attempted in only a few places. One of those few places is British West Africa -- the composite designation for Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, the Gambia and the British ...