Tribal classification served rulers by manufacturing compliant chiefly authorities.

Evidence

The new system provided an expedient opportunity for the NAD [Native Affairs Department] to dilute the influence of chiefs it regarded as uncooperative. The popularly acknowledged Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo, for example, saw his chiefdom arbitrarily split into two regions, Tembuland (later renamed Dalindyebo) and Emigrant Thembuland. In the latter region, Kaizer Mantanzima, a once obscure chief who early showed a genuine interest in the philosophy and practice and soon the material rewards of apartheid, was elevated to paramount chief. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 571

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels French colonial use of canton chiefs in A Mission to Civilize (uniform administrative chiefs displacing recalcitrant traditional authorities) — supports the reader’s test of whether repertoire channeling is regime-instrumental. — connects to: Indirect rule governed through native leaders who relayed colonial policy and exacted obedience — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 849; States co-opt evolved kin and in-group tendencies to manufacture devoted actors. — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor: Unconditional…, 27; Indirect rule made customary law into an administrative tool of colonial control — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 70 (+1 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Illustrates Tilly’s core point that the categories regimes enforce are not neutral descriptions but tools of political restructuring — the sort of asymmetry-rich material for the reader’s institutional-absorption hypothesis.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 571

Broader Connections

• Indirect rule governed through native leaders who relayed colonial policy and exacted obedience #exemplifies (0.90) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 849
• Indirect rule made customary law into an administrative tool of colonial control #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 70
• Colonial rule installed subject races as agents within colonial machinery #expands (0.82) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 44
• States co-opt evolved kin and in-group tendencies to manufacture devoted actors. #expands (0.78) — Scott Atran, The Devoted Actor, 27