How much social mobility was there in the old colonial empires?

>>3202578

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>>3202578
You're going to have to be more specific. Take, for example, the British Raj. Your average Indian could get a job within the civil service, but could never really rise above the rank of middle management. The same goes for the army, you'd have native soldiers and NCOs but all the officer class would be occupiers. This was really the model, but other countries like France or Belgium would give their clients more power, but would confine it to individual tribes who they essentially made into a native aristocracy.

>>3202578
For a long time it wasn't even a question in French colonies, given that the average Gabonese for example wasn't prticularly ambitious. Guys were born shepherd or something and had no reason to want to be something else.

>>3203712
>given that the average Gabonese for example wasn't prticularly ambitious. Guys were born shepherd or something and had no reason to want to be something else

So much people joined colonial armies for the high salary relative to the rest of the population and benefits from it.

>>3203509
>The same goes for the army, you'd have native soldiers and NCOs but all the officer class would be occupiers
Well Thats not accurate, Since the 1920s yes they were below a british officer but there were indeed native Commissioned Officers and plenty of them.

>King's Commissioned Indian Officers (KCIOs), created from the 1920s, held equal powers to British officers. Viceroy's Commissioned Officers were Indians holding officer ranks. They were treated in almost all respects as commissioned officers, but had authority over Indian troops only, and were subordinate to all British King's (and Queen's) Commissioned Officers and KCIOs.

Basically WWI forced them to rely on us because well manpower logistics and the exceptional WWI contribution softened the distrust 1857 spawned.

>>3202578
>How much social mobility was there in the old colonial empires?
Considering most of them practiced slavery? Not very much.