• In political science, direct rule is when an imperial or central power takes direct control over the legislature, executive and civil administration of...
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  • Direct colonial rule is a form of colonialism that involves the establishment of a centralized foreign authority within a territory, which is run by colonial...
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  • In India, President's rule is the suspension of state government and imposition of direct Union government rule in a state. Under Article 356 of the Constitution...
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    lasting from 1858 to 1947. It is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called India...
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  • In Northern Irish politics, direct rule (Irish: riail dhíreach) is the administration of Northern Ireland directly by the Government of the United Kingdom...
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    weapons and settled Russian Cossacks near the Terek river to strengthen their rule and influence. Prince Shikh Okotsky had in his army around 500 Cossacks combined...
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    colonial rule function. British Empire portal Politics portal Bussa revolt – a 1915 uprising against indirect rule in Northern Nigeria Direct colonial rule Analysis...
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    with the exception of five months in 1974, Northern Ireland was under "direct rule" with a Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the British Cabinet...
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    Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution would be invoked, leading to direct rule over Catalonia by the Spanish government once approved by the Senate...
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  • 1972 and 1998, Northern Ireland was under direct rule from Westminster).[citation needed] English home rule has been discussed in relation to proposals...
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  • Georgia Rule is a 2007 American black comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall from a screenplay by Mark Andrus. It stars Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan...
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    steps to reassert control, then sent an army to Tibet for establishing direct rule and occupied Lhasa in 1910. However, the Qing dynasty was overthrown...
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    power in Southern Rhodesia gradually transferred from complete Company rule to effective self-government by the growing number of white settlers. In...
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    will. The amount of direct control that an autocrat wields in practice may vary. As an autocratic government solidifies its rule, it develops stronger...
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    The Home Rule movement was a movement that campaigned for self-government (or "home rule") for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and...
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    District of Columbia home rule is the District of Columbia residents' ability to govern their local affairs. The District is the federal capital; as such...
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    British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British...
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    where people under direct colonial rule secretly elected a real chief in order to retain traditional rights and customs. Direct rule deliberately removed...
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    ruled by the Dalpatia clan Bhau – ruled by the Bhauwal clan Bhoti – ruled by the Bhatial clan Chenehni – ruled by the Hantal clan Bandralta – ruled by...
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    effective democracy" would be restored within three years. but the period of direct rule was accompanied by repression of dissent. International organizations...
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    and the ministry was known as the Department of the Environment under direct rule. The DoE is still used in everyday language in Northern Ireland to describe...
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    unionist-controlled Stormont parliament and government, and introduced "direct rule" from London. Direct rule was initially intended as a short-term measure; the medium-term...
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  • republics were transformed into the Kingdom of Italy under Napoleon's direct rule in the north, and the Kingdom of Naples in the south, first under Joseph...
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    Vereeniging at the conclusion of the Second Boer War. Following a period of direct rule by the British, it attained self-government in 1907 and joined the Union...
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    Northern Ireland during periods of Direct Rule. Scottish Government Governance of England Welsh Government Statutory Rules & Orders published by authority...
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    Roman authorities were marked by frequent crises. With the onset of direct rule, the official census instituted by Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, the governor...
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    violence, the Conservative government prorogued Stormont and imposed direct rule "not merely to restore order but to reshape the Province's system of...
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  • 1857, the company rule in India was brought to an end, but the British India along with princely states came under the direct rule of the British Crown...
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    of neocolonialism claimed that the Françafrique had replaced formal direct rule. They argued that while de Gaulle was granting independence, on one hand...
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    Department of Commerce and Department of Economic Development under direct rule (introduced in March 1972). An economic ministry was also included in...
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