The uprising of the “fearsome ruler of Lanao”: Banditry and the internalization of violence in a southern Philippine Muslim society during the 1930s

doi:10.4324/9780203961216-12

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The uprising of the “fearsome ruler of Lanao”: Banditry and the internalization of violence in a southern Philippine Muslim society during the 1930s

ABSTRACT

This chapter takes a look at the famous Muslim bandit Dimakaling, who was active in the province of Lanao on the island of Mindanao, the southern Philippines, during the early 1930s, in an attempt to examine (1) the role of violence in a society on the periphery of a colonial regime, (2) the formation of an ideology to justify such violence, and (3) the incorporation of violence into a rural social structure.