No modern state could ever again hope to rely on the obedience of subjects or to impose rule through a handful of rulers, even armed ones: for one thing, counter-insurgent access to weapons was too easy.
From the 1950s, India imposed puppet rulers in Kashmir, because local leaders did not always toe the line.
Kosovo was an autonomous region until Serbia's thuggish ruler, Slobodan Milosevic, imposed direct rule in 1989.
A Daylamite chief named Kurankij replaced him as de facto ruler of Baghdad, but he imposed tyrannical rule, and al-Muttaqi appealed to the former amir al-umara Ibn Ra'iq for assistance.
That man was the last Soviet-imposed ruler of Afghanistan, Muhammad Najibullah, and he was led away to face Taliban judgment for his years as secret police chief and later as president of the Communist puppet state that ruled the country from 1978 to 1992.
Proponents insist that it is a far better alternative to the common law that British rulers imposed.
That, they suggest may have been to pay a heavy tax imposed by Incan rulers, who favored the metal.
Croatians are protective of the their language from foreign influences, as the language was under constant change and threats imposed by previous rulers (i.e. Austrian German, Hungarian, Italian and Turkish words were changed and altered to "Slavic" looking/sounding ones).
Croatians are protective of their Croatian language from foreign influences, as the language was under constant change and threats imposed by previous rulers (i.e. Austrian German, Hungarian, Italian and Turkish words were changed and altered to "Slavic" looking/sounding ones).
It also protested a special tax on women imposed by the local ruler, Sir Ladapo Ademola II.
A ruthless ruler, Galerius imposed the poll tax on the urban population and maintained the persecution of the Christians.
