ISBN:
0-416-80200-1 (paperback)
,
0-416-80210-9 (hardback)
,
978-0-416-80200-9
,
978-0-416-80210-8
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 186 Seiten
,
Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Studies in African History 10
Keywords:
Uganda Buganda
;
Bunyoro
;
Toro
;
Königreich
;
Geschichte
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Kaboyo Olimi I, Toro, König [Leben und Werk]
;
Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi, Toro, König [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
Toro, situated on the eastern flank of the Mountains of the Moon, is usually numbered among the ancient and traditional kindoms of Uganda, Traditions its rulers certainly claimed, but the kingdom was not ancient, having been founded in the nineteenth century by Kaboyo, a rebel prince of the Empire of Bunyoro-Kitara.Professor Inghams's book describes the foundation of the kingdom and goes on to investigate how Kasagama, Kaboyo's grandson, was able to recreate, with little local support, a kingdom far more extensive tha Kaboyo had ever envisaged. His personal authority was established by his insistence that its roots were tradition, thus satisfying the requirements of "indirect rule" at a time when this ill-defined concept served both as the shibboleth and the escape clause for an overstreched British colonial administration. Although Kasagama's son, Rukidi, was able to combine authority with personal popularity and to take advantage of colonial innovations without losing control of his kingdom, the ending of colonial rueel brought an end to Toro as he knew it. In independent Uganga the particularism stressed by Toro's rulers could not survive. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Glossary of vernacular term in frequent use -- Introduction: imperial origins -- The founding of the kingdom -- The kingdom destroyed -- The kingfom revived -- The kingdom confirmed -- The kingdom looks outward -- The kingdom again destroyed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 178-181
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