LERE VASSAL STATE OF ZAZZAU EMIRATE CIRCA 1804-1903
LERE VASSAL STATE OF ZAZZAU EMIRATE CIRCA 1804-1903
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2012-10
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BELLO, FAT1MAH DEMBO
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Abstract
The thesis examines the establishment, growth and development of I.ere vassal Male of
Zazzau emirate in the nineteenth century. The area consists of the polities of the Kurama. Gure,
Kahugu, Amo, Sheni, as well as the Pulani and Hausa. The stud) traces the foundation of the
Lere vassal slate as well as analyzed the political, social, economic and cultural history of the
people or polities from the period before the 1804 or Sokoto jihad to the period of colonial
conquest. The jihad led by Shehu Uthman Danfodio no doubt, profoundly affected the
development of the state. As such, changes in the political, social cultural and economic
organization of the polities are discussed and analyzed. I bus. ii is our contention that rather than
seeing the economic, social and political relations thai existed among the people of kasar Lere as
savagery and barbaric, it should be seen in terms of a societ) that was managing iis environment
based on the needs of the people and even in situations of wars, this was done with organized
and systematic administration of justice and it never resulted in situation of disharmonv as the
colonial records seem to perpetrate / reveal.
B) and large, these changes in the political, social, economic and cultural spheres that led
to the development of inter group relations among the polities and between them and their
neighbours is the main thrust of this thesis, fherefore, a wide range of sources such as extensive
oral accounts, archival as well as published materials were full) utilized in the reconstruction of
the history of the Lere vassal stale of Zazzau emirate.
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Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirement for the
Award of the Degree of Master of Arts (History) of the Ahmadu
Bello University, Zaria.
M. A. THESIS, OCTOBER, 2012.
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LERE VASSAL STATE, ZAZZAU EMIRATE, 1804-1903, CIRCA