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Prelude to the Mahdiyya - Peasants and Traders in the Shendi Region, 1821-1885 (Paperback)
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Prelude to the Mahdiyya - Peasants and Traders in the Shendi Region, 1821-1885 (Paperback)
Series: African Studies
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During the first colonial period (the Turkiyya, 1821???85), the
Shendi region of the Northern Sudan was inhabited by peasants,
traders and nomads. This book analyses socio-economic change among
the peasants and traders during this formative period of Sudanese
history. Administration, agriculture and trade in transition from a
pre-colonial to a colonial economy are discussed. Anders Bj??rkelo
argues that Turkish demands for cash-crop cultivation and taxation
in cash ruined the villages and towns and undermined the local
subsistence economy, and that the role of traders as mediators in
the process of monetisation contributed to stagnation and rural
indebtedness. By combining a thorough mastery of the travel
literature with examination of previously unknown manuscript
sources, notably the private papers of a prominent Sudanese
merchant, he is able to offer a closer view of the situation of
trader and peasant families. For the first time it is possible to
consider the period from a Sudanese point of view. Dr Bj??rkelo
concludes that General Gordon??'s policy of driving back to the
impoverished north the waves of emigrants to the Southern Sudan was
instrumental in triggering off the Mahdist movement, and also
interestingly suggests points of comparison between reactions to
Muslim, as against European, imperialism.
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