French indirect rule let feudalism persist and hindered British wartime recruitment

Evidence

What have the English done? They have allowed to persist, under the semblances of a doctrinaire liberalism, all that is oppressive in the feu- dal regime that was in place when they arrived. This fundamentally aris- tocratic regime, which did not allow them to recruit even a twentieth of the men we were able to during the war, is now condemned by all im- portant colonial figures [because it risks alienating the mass of African subjects]. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 661

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• French colonial officials contrasted their mass-conciliating rule against Britain’s preserved aristocratic systems (similarity 0.82)
• French colonial administrators knowingly cooperated in coercive labor recruitment (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• French colonial administrators knowingly cooperated in coercive labor recruitment #corroborates (0.65) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 845
• France’s egalitarian influence spread least while it claimed a civilizing mission #corroborates (0.55) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 892