In what ways did the colonial experience of "contested settler colonies" differ

Continued to exploit longstanding ethnic and cultural divisions, particularly religious; played animists or Christians against Muslims; often utilized minority peoples to administer territories in return for political support; divided people into tribes; recruited favored groups for Western education, roles in government; created economy dependent on industrialized West; extracted raw materials by introduction of incentives or coercion, taxes, production quotas; increased sectors of economy useful to Western industry at expense of local economy.

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