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Two versions of an Amharic proclamation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Edward Ullendorff
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In July 1913 Dejazmatch Tafari (as the Emperor Haile Sellassie I was then styled), governor of the large Harar province of Ethiopia, issued a proclamation which was intended to counteract certain abuses in tax-collecting under which the peasants had been chafing. The text of this proclamation was recently printed in the Emperor's autobiography, but another version of the same proclamation is extant and was published in J. I. Eadie's An Amharic reader, CUP, 1924, 183 ff. Neither His Imperial Majesty nor the late Major Eadie is specific about the provenance of the text in his possession, and the only information vouchsafed by Eadie is a brief reference in the first sentence of the preface to his book that ‘the subject matter of this Reading Book was collected in Addis Abeba in 1913 from literate Amharas’.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , February 1974 , pp. 208 - 212
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1974

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1 Hǝywätetina yä-Ityopya ǝrmǝjja ‘My Life and Ethiopia's progress’, part I: xv, 264 pp., 45 plates, genealogical table, Addis Ababa, Berhanenna Salam Press, 1973Google Scholar, Eth. $12 [£2.25]. See pp. 22–3.