'We of the white men's country': the remaking of the Qadi chiefdom, 1830s to 1910

Argues that archives are as much about retrieving and using documents as about collecting and storing them. Presents a case study of nineteenth-century archival records from the British colony of Natal and what they reveal about the ways in which indigenous African polities were ruled and shaped the conditions of being ruled. Example used is that of the Qadi chiefdom, exceptionally successful in negotiating British rule to its own advantage.