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Hut tax and revenue experiments spread in protectorate rule

British administrators experimented with taxation as they moved from coastal influence to territorial rule.

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1898

Hut tax and revenue experiments spread in protectorate rule

British administrators experimented with taxation as they moved from coastal influence to territorial rule.

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British administrators experimented with taxation as they moved from coastal influence to territorial rule. Taxation was both a revenue device and a means of forcing populations into colonial administrative visibility.

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