It is a way for them to divide and rule the populations.
But the tensions remained; the Indian cliché that these were largely due to a British policy of "divide and rule" is a self-excusing fantasy.
That would be less a matter of divide and rule than a strategy of divide and go.
The apartheid system in South Africa regards the tribal system as its policy basis for "divide and rule" the land.
Yamada Denki and its handful of smaller rival chains were able to divide and rule.
British Control was aimed for the economic profits. Under the "divide and rule" policy, Great Britain let the ethnic groups in Malaya to take charge of their own business.
Quite why he ordered his Great Wall to be built on England's border with Scotland is uncertain, but Mr Opper's gut feeling is that it was to divide and rule the revolting northern tribes.
This was the imperialists' trick of "divide and rule".
As long as I have my breath left, I can never agree to divide and rule India.
Because the Congress first wants to avoid divide and rule, and at any cost prevents the divide and conquer program from being successful.
