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Title: | The Political Elite of Imerina and the Revolt of the Menalamba: The Creation of a Colonial Myth in Madagascar, 1895-1898 |
Author: | Ellis, Stephen |
Year: | 1980 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537) |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 219-234 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Madagascar |
Subjects: | Menalamba revolt anticolonialism history Merina polity History and Exploration colonialism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://hdl.handle.net/1887/8948 https://www.jstor.org/stable/182136 |
Abstract: | The revolt of the Menalamba occurred over a wide area of central Madagascar, mostly in the kingdom of Imerina, in the two years following the French invasion of Madagascar in 1895. A mysterious aspect has always been the question of who, if anyone was its leader. The official version (of the French government) was that the movement was inspired or directed by a number of magnates at the old Merina court. Recent research in previously unopened archives has thrown new light on the question: the role of the old oligarchy in the uprising was virtually nil. Notes, French sum. |