Question

Difference between indirect and direct rule and how they can be used?

Answer 1

what are the differences between DIRECT and INDIRECT rule? Direct rule sends their own officials to rule, impose on the culture, and use the land for their own colonies. Indirect rule allows local rulers to decide on things, try to groom the kids to be like them, and did allow culture to stay (for the most part).
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Answer 2

so a direct colonial rule is a form of colonialism that involves the establishment of a centralized foreign authority within a territory, which is run by colonial officials. ... The opposite of direct colonial rule is indirect rule, which integrates pre-established local elites and native institutions into the government and a Indirect and direct rule thus had opposite effects on pre-colonial structures of power: indirect rule aimed to preserve them, while direct rule was intended to eradicate and replace them with a new colonial order.