Originally published in 1985, this book examines the rising of the
menalamba, the Red Shawls, against French colonial rule in
Madagascar in the 1890s. Using the words of the Malagasy themselves
and the archives of the Malagasy kings and queens, as well as
European records, it tells from the inside the story of an
Afro-Asian society at a moment of crisis. In the century before the
French conquest, rising tensions between modernising kings,
self-seeking Christian oligarchs and reactionary guardians of the
ancient talismans had weakened the capacity of the kingdom to
resist. But just two months after the French occupation of the
capital the menalamba revivalist movement sought to restore the
customs of the ancestors and expel the French from the island. The
civil war of 1895 9, which was fully described here for the first
time, has cast a shadow on Malagasy politics ever since."
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