Colonial Development and Welfare Acts

The Colonial Development and Welfare Acts were a series of acts implemented by the British parliament.

Colonial Development Act 1929

Following the First World War, a group of European settlers emerged in Kenya, known as the Happy Valley set. Under the political guidance of Lord Delamere they sought to ensure that colonial policy suited the interests of these White settlers. However with a certain amount of migration from the sub-continent of India, then under British rule, the racial exclusivity of the prime areas for settling came into dispute, and in 1923 Lord Devonshire issued the Devonshire Declaration.[1]

Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1940

In 1942 the provisions of this act were used initially to fund the British Colonial Research Committee.[2] Later the Colonial Social Science Research Council which was set up in 1944.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Maxon, R. M. (1991). "The Devonshire Declaration: The Myth of Missionary Intervention". History in Africa 18: 259–270. doi:10.2307/3172065. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Colonial Research Committee and Colonial Research Council: Minutes and Papers". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. The National Archives. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Notes and News". American Anthropologist 51 (1): 167–169. 1949. doi:10.1525/aa.1949.51.1.02a00310. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
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