"Native Races and Their Rulers. Sketches and Studies of Official Life and Administrative Problems in Nigeria."
Publisher's illustrated card binding.
xi + 252 pages. Colour frontispiece. Illustrations by the author.
Inscribed to South African author William Charles Scully on the front endpaper, "W. C. Scully, with compliments from C. L. Temple."
Spine with wear. Occasional foxing internally.
The author, Charles Lindsay Temple (1871–1929), was a British colonial administrator renowned for his service in Nigeria, where he acted as Lieutenant-Governor of the Northern Provinces from January 1914 until ill health necessitated his retirement in 1917.
His book "Native Races and Their Rulers" is a seminal text on the philosophy and implementation of British colonial governance, specifically the policy of "Indiract Rule" in Northern Nigeria. Writing from his personal perspective as the former Lieutenant-Governor of Northern Nigeria, Temple used a mix of analytical studies and personal sketches to justify minimal direct British intervention. He argued that colonial powers should govern through established local authorities and indigenous socio-political structures rather than imposing European institutions.
- Binding Condition: Fair
- Overall Condition: Fair to Good
