Britain occupied Egypt while the Mahdï seized the Sudan in 1882-83

Evidence

For him the colonization of Egypt is not to be understood in the traditional manner of the process of structuring Egyptian society after the British military takeover in 1882. Rather, it was a process that had started much earlier and which entailed the complete restructuring of Egyptian society – the government bureaucracy, the military, the schools, cities, towns, streets, houses, families and the body of the individual – in such a way that made Egypt not only more profitable, more productive, but also represented the country in a manner that produced the same division of the world into two domains that had been accomplished earlier in Europe and which made it more accessible to European control. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 113 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

The chapter concludes with the ways in which Sudanese figures debated the issue of unity with Egypt under the watchful eyes of British administrators in the Sudan, and a discussion of how the dualism of the colonized colonizer was viewed by people in the Sudan, nominally colonized by both Great Britain and Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: British occupation displaced Ottoman authority and severed Egypt from its dependency the Sudan; Egyptian colonization began decades before the 1882 British occupation — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 113; Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 (+8 more)

Broader Connections