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Shared societies and notions of diversity management are not new and pre-date the post-Westphalian system of ‘nation’-states as elements of statecraft. ‘Nation’ is itself an operative word, deriving as it does from the Latin for nation, natus, meaning birth line or shared blood relations: at a minimum common origins, cultural understandings and language. Empires and kingdoms were managed and ruled on the basis of multiple identity groups, majorities and minorities. Chinese history encompasses the founding in 221 BC of a united, multi-ethnic, centralized state, the Qin Dynasty, and followed by the Han whose centralized feudal state set up frontier command posts with 17 prefectures governing the people of multiple ethnic groups who lived in the western regions. In the latter part of the British Empire, Lord Lugard’s system of ‘indirect rule’ elevated some groups above others for instrumental administrative or military roles (Flint, 1978).
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Large, J., Herrington, R. (2013). Governance for Shared Societies. In: Public Policies in Shared Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276322_2
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