Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism
Evidence
For the specialist in colonial affairs, veterans and the “developed” natives are the commandos who are entrusted with destroying the cultural resistance of a colonized country. The regions are accordingly classified in terms of the number of developed “active units,” in other words, agents of erosion of the national culture that they contain. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia; Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244; British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5399 (+12 more)
Related
- Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia (similarity 0.87)
- Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture (similarity 0.86)
- Empire size forced recruitment of bilingual native clerks who later became nationalists (similarity 0.84)
- Colonial rule runs on force and manufactures a servile local elite (similarity 0.83)
- British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.80)
- Bilingualism gave colonial intelligentsias access to modular models of nationalism (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia
#corroborates(0.85) - Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture
#complicates(0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244