The transformation of Katsina (1400-1883)

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dc.contributor.authorUSMAN, Yusuf Bala
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-10T11:59:58Z
dc.date.available2024-08-10T11:59:58Z
dc.date.issued1981
dc.descriptionThis study is concerned with the nature of the historical process which over a period of five hundred years, (c. 1400—1883), produced the successive political systems to which the inhabitants of an area of the West African Sudan which has come to be known as ‘Katsina’ belonged. This area is now a part of the Savannah and Sahel regions of Nigeria and the Republic of Niger. The study was conducted primarily to discover whether this process was essentially composed of the movements and conflicts of racial, tribal and ethnic'units and groups and their armies. For this is the conventional and still widely-held view of the historical development of the people of the area, and indeed of the whole of the African continent. It is doubts about this view and concern about its contemporary political significance which led to this study. These doubts arose in the first place over the theoretical issue of what meaningful categories and terms are to be used in the definitions of the substantive units of this historical process. Or, more concretely, the issue of the actual meaning at particular historical moments and in particular historical contexts, of categories and terms like ‘Hausa’, ‘Fulani’, ‘Barebare’, ‘Nupe’, ‘Katsinawa’, ‘Sakkwatawa’, ‘al-Barnawi’, ‘al-Sudani’ and many others. And secondly, because of the way the conventional view is contradicted in many respects by the primary, especially internal, sources of the history of the area.
dc.description.abstract■ The emergence of the Sarauta system: c. 1400—1684; ■ The pattern of settlement in the eighteenth century; ■ The society of Katsina in the late eighteenth century; ■ The state in the late eithteenth century; ■ The overthrow of the Sarauta system; ■ The demise of the Jama’a of Katsina; ■ The establishment of the Emirate; ■ Outlines of the emirate system; ■ Changing patterns of settlement and economy 1808—1883;
dc.identifier.isbn978 125 016
dc.identifier.urihttps://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/1574
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherZaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press Ltd
dc.titleThe transformation of Katsina (1400-1883)
dc.title.alternativethe emergence and overthrow of the Sarauta system and the establishment of the emirate.
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