Class and Power in Sudan

Tim Niblock is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.

• List of Tables and FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1. The Development of the Economy up to 1930I. Before 1898II. Determing the direction of economic development after 1898III. The inception of the cotton schemesIV. Other economic developments2. Economic Developments 1930-56I. The re-investment of accumulated capitalII. The government sector: administration and servicesIII. The government sector: productive investmentIV. The private sector: investment in pump schemesV. The private sector: investment in mechanised farming in the rainlandsVI. The private sector: investment in real estate, commerce and petty manufacturingVII. The economic position in 19563. Social Forces under CondominiumI. IntroductionII. Reinvestment and the economic elite(a) Religious leaders(b) Tribal leaders(c) Merchants (traders)(d) Higher civil servants and professionals(e) Composition of policy-making bodies: representation of the economic elite in the Legislative Assemly and the first ParliamentIII. Social structure: the size and character of socio-economic groupings(a) Peasants(b) Nomads(c) Tenant farmers(d) Rural farmers(e) Urban workers(f) Salariat(g) Merchants(h) Class structureAppendix: The Sufi religious orders (Turuq)4. Social Movements, Regional Movements and Administrative Organisation, 1898-1956I. Social movements and organisations(a) The labour movement(b) The tenants' movement(c) The student movement(d) The women's movement(e) The militaryII. Regional movements and organisations(a) The basis of inequality(b) Regional movements in northern Sudan(c) The regional movement in southern SudanIII. The administrative system5. Sudanese Nationalism and the Attainment of IndependenceI. IntroductionII. Primary resistingIII. The 1924 UprisingIV. The creation of quasi-political groupings around establishment figures, 1920s and 1930sV. The Literary Study Groups, late 1920s and 1930sVI. The re-emergence of a nationalist movement: the Graduates' Congress and the development of political parties, 1938-46VII. The rise of a radical nationalist movement, 1945-56VIII. The transition to independence6. The Dynamics of Post-Independence Politics, 1956-69I. PerspectiveII. 1956-8: The first parliamentary period(a) The emergence of the National Unionist Party as a secular nationalist movement(b) Changing electoral rules and the 1958 elections(c) The SouthIII. 1958-64: the 'Abbud regime(a) The Assumption of power by the military(b) Civilian representation(c) The SouthIV. 1964-9: the second parliamentary period(a) The rise and fall of the transitional government and subsequent developmentsV. The economy7. Politics and Economy under the Nimairi Regime, 1969-85I. The overall patternII. The free officers' movement and the seizure of power(a) Origins of the free officers; movement: the 1950s(b) Development of a new officers' movements in the 1960s and the 1969 coupIII. Programmes for social and economic change, 1969-71IV. The failure to maintain the progressive alliance, 1969-71V. The political institutions of the regime, post-1971VI. Political dynamics affecting the roles of the political institutionsVII. Popular participation: the Sudan Socialist UnionVIII. The pursuit of national unity: regional autonomy in the southern SudanIX. Economic policy and achievementX. The dynamics of the Nirmairi regime's disintegrationEpilogueNotesAppendixGlossary of Arabic TermsIndex