Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Code de l'indigénat was a set of laws creating, in practice, an inferior legal status for natives of French Colonies from 1887 until 1944 1947. First put in place in Algeria, it was applied across the French Colonial Empire in 1887 1889. A similar strategy was also employed by other European colonial powers, under the concept of Indirect rule. French colonial policy is often contrasted with the British concept of Indirect rule pioneered by Frederick Lugard of the British East Africa Company in Uganda and later the Royal Niger Company in what is today Nigeria.