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Title: | The Education of an Elite Imperial Administration: The Sudan Political Service and the British Public School System |
Author: | Mangan, J.A. |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 671-699 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | colonial administrators colonialism History and Exploration Education and Oral Traditions |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/217850 |
Abstract: | This paper is an analysis of the educational and social backgrounds of members of Sudan Political Service (1899-1956), an imperial administrative corps d'elite. It draws substantially on hitherto unpublished correspondence and interviews with some sixty former members of the Sudan Political Service. Specific objectives of the paper: to discover just how far membership of this select imperial force was not only the prerogative of the public school system, but of certain schools within it; to assess the accuracy of Nicholson and Hughes's observation that the best public schools lost interest in imperial careers after the Great War; to discover whether public school membership of the Service progressively declined as interest in the Empire lessened and as state schools increased in number and quality throughout the twentieth century; to investigate the extent of the truth of the frequently quoted and somewhat malicious axiom that the Sudan was a nation of blacks ruled by (Oxbridge) 'blues'; to examine R.O. Collins' contention that members of the Service had their roots in the English countryside and were consequently squirearchical in attitude and approach to the Sudanese people. Notes, tab. |