A History of Sabata Awas District: 1941 - 1991

Abstract

The research is a historical survey of Sabata Awas District from 1941 -1991. The purpose of the research is to reconstruct the socio-political, economic, cultural and ritual history of Sabata Awas District focusing on the periods between 1941 and 1991. The year 1941 was a turning point in the history of the district because of the foundation of the district was began as a general and particular area, while the year 1991 marked the downfall of the military regime and its command economic system. This reconstructed the history of Sabata Awas District based on archives, primary, secondary and oral sources. Appropriate data from different sources like archival materials, papers, theses and dissertations,books and oral information are gathered and organized. The collected data and oral information are carefully arranged and crosschecked and then analyzed, interpreted and narrated chronologically. It is in this way that the history of Sabata Awas District from the Italian occupation to the last decade of 20thc is constructed. The thesis offered background knowledge related to the pre-Italian occupation. Inshort, the objective of the study is to show the local changes observed in Sabata Awas district in the context of change in policy and government at the national level. Accordingly, it starts by highlighting the short Fascist Italian administration pertaining to land, food and reactions of the local peopleagainst Italians. The restoration of the imperial rule and some of the reforms that imperial government introduced, especially in relation to land, taxation, administration and reactions of the peoples of the district as well as impacts of the capital on the district that resulted froma policy through the time of the period.The research also tries to examine the development that Sabata Awas witnessed during the military regime(1974 -1991). The military regime attemped to consolidate its power by introducing several measures at a national level and in particular in Sabata Awas