Dar Sila, the Sultanate in Precolonial Times, 1870-1916

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Title:	Dar Sila, the Sultanate in Precolonial Times, 1870-1916
Author:	Kapteijns, Lidwien
Year:	1983
Periodical:	Cahiers d'études africaines
Volume:	23
Issue:	92
Pages:	447-470
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Chad
Subjects:	history Dar Sila polity History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism
External link:	https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1983.2239
Abstract:	For the sultanate of Dar Sila, as for the other sultanates of the Chado-Sudanese frontier, the French conquest of Wadai in 1909 sounded the death-knell over its existence as a small independent Sudanic State. The present essay is primarily concerned with the political history of Dar Sila until 1916 and - as far as the sources allow - with the political and social organization of the precolonial State. While it analyses the revolutionary impact of the beginnings of French colonial rule, it stops short of a discussion of the colonial period as a whole. It bases itself on administrative reports preserved in the French and British colonial archives, the Arabic archives of the Mahdist State, the Arabic correspondence of the sultans of Dar Sila and, to some extent, on oral sources collected by the author on the Sudanese side of the Chado-Sudanese border, in Dar Fur, Dar Masalit and Dar Sinyar. Bibliogr., notes, sum. in French p. 531.