Why did some native peoples cooperate with their imperialist rulers? What advantages did they gain in their own societies from doing so?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Native cooperation
1. stranger effect
a. cultures are disposed to grant what to us seem surprising degrees of
power to outsiders
1. high esteem accorded to the exotic and strange
2. shrewd calculation of foreigners' usefulness as objective
arbitrators
3. many native elites in colonial lands were willing to grant the
topmost level of authority to European intruders and pay
them to exercise it
B. Benefits of cooperation
1. local, regional, and subordinate native rulers retained real power
a. one-third of India was divided among states ruled by Indian princes
b. native sultans ruled virtually the whole of Malaya
c. friendly native chiefs administered parts of German East Africa
d. Morocco and Tunisia were French protectorates under the formal
rule of figurehead Arab monarchs
e. French delegated awkward jobs, such as tax collecting, to native
chiefs
2. allowed increased access
a. literate locals, who knew their way around the native cultures,
were vital guides
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