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RIKA ROOI 220141329

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ZULU WAR ONLINE ARTICLE.pdf - 5 views

RIKA MMATHAPELO ROOI 220141329

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  • T he Anglo-Zulu war is perhaps the most well known colonial campaign of the V ictorian or any other era
  • ut before the discovery of gold in 1886, the region was poor and unpromising –
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Therefore, the British army had a desire for the Zulu population to provide labor.
  • the aim of this paper is to challenge some of these assumptions and to put forward a more radical and, I think, a more plausible answer to the question of why there was an Anglo-Zulu war in 1879.
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      There are various perspectives concerning the Zulu war.
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  • Other theorists have argued that Zululand was conquered to turn the Zulu warriors into miners and farm labourers, b
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Similar to the context of slavery. The British or European army (capitalists wanted to oppress the lower class (in this case the Zulu people)
  • efore 1860, Britain had had no serious rivals for her easy dominance of trade and empire expressed in the idea of Pa
  • ir Bartle Frere an
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      The former governor of the Bombay presidency
  • And at the tip of this iceberg was Lord Carnarvon, whose first act as Colonial Secretary was to order a thoroughgoing imperial defence review
  • The first visible sign of this review in Natal was the building of Fort Durnford at Estcourt and Fort Amiel at Newcastle.
  • t Lucia Bay in the north of Zululand was annexed in 1886 without the knowledge of th
  • Colonial Secretary while Zululand itself was finally annexed in 1887 by Melmoth Osborn on his own initiative.
  • up the Political and Secret Committee (a fact that was carefully omitted from his tombstone biography) and shepherded the Prince of Wales on his tour of India in 1876 – no mean feat, given Bertie the Boundah’s extra-curricular interests
  • esponsibility for starting the Zulu war – it was the work of Sir Bartle Frere, British High Commissioner
  • Henry Bartle Edward Frere was born at Bath in 1815, joined the East India Company in 1834 and went to work in the Bombay presidency, where he rose rapidly through the ranks – it helped that he married the governor’s daughter – to become the Chief Commissioner of Sind on the North West frontier, member of the Viceroy’s Council (1859–62) and ultimately, the legendary Governor of Bombay (1862–7). For a short period after the mutiny he was, de facto, Viceroy of India as everyone else on the Council had died or was in England. On his return to England he served on the India Council heading
    • rikarooi
      rikarooi on 26 Apr 23
       
      Sir Henry Bartle Frere's biography
  • Frere was sent out to South Africa not to tame the Zulus but to get ready to fight the Russians.
  • ujhistprof on 19 May 23
     
    Counts as your general historical source (not Diigo or T&F)
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