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Indirect rule

system of colonial government, in which the day-to-day government and administration of areas both small and large was left in the hands of traditional rulers, while external affairs, taxation, and communications were left to colonial powers
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Indirect rule

Summary

Indirect rule ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (131 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Indirect rule's subclass of is recorded as public policy[2].
  • Indirect rule's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/063bcp[3].
  • Indirect rule's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/indirect-rule[4].
  • Indirect rule's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as indirect-rule[5].
  • Indirect rule's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 294916814[6].
  • Indirect rule's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779101304[7].
  • Indirect rule's Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID is recorded as governo-indiretto[8].
  • Indirect rule's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2779101304[9].
  • Indirect rule's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as kosvennoe-upravlenie-8ac265[10].

Why It Matters

Indirect rule ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (131 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

public policy

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . ASC Leiden Thesaurus dataset of 5 June 2018. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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