British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians
Evidence
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 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: British occupation displaced Ottoman authority and severed Egypt from its dependency the Sudan; Al-Afghani saw British control of Sudan as encircling Egyptian territory; Slavery debates aggravated Egyptian-Sudanese colonial tensions (+19 more)
Related
- Britain framed Sudan as racially distinct from Egypt and groomed separate Sudanese nationalism. (similarity 0.91)
- Slavery and control of Sudan were inextricably linked in Egyptian and British views. (similarity 0.90)
- Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.88)
- Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
- British occupation displaced Ottoman authority and severed Egypt from its dependency the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
- Sudanese themselves debated unity with Egypt under British oversight. (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.87)
- Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.87)
- Sudanese elites debated unity with Egypt under British surveillance (similarity 0.86)
- Egypt faced triple colonial pressure from Ottomans, British, and Mahdist Sudan (similarity 0.86)
- British rule in Egypt was informal while its invasion of the Sudan was direct. (similarity 0.86)
- Mahdist Sudanese preferred distant British rule over near Egyptian rule (similarity 0.86)
- Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians (similarity 0.86)
- Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 (similarity 0.86)
Broader Connections
- Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan.
#corroborates(0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 - Egyptian nationalism developed within a triangular structure involving Britain and the Sudan
#expands(0.60) - Egyptian nationalism paired aggression toward Sudan with defensiveness toward Britain.
#corroborates(0.60) - Egypt faced triple colonial pressure from Ottomans, British, and Mahdist Sudan
#expands(0.50) - Egyptian nationalists reproduced British colonial hierarchies against the Sudanese.
#complicates(0.50) - Egyptian nationalists adopted British colonial categories to justify dominating the Sudanese.
#complicates(0.50) - Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies.
#exemplifies(0.50) - Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan
#corroborates(0.50) - Egyptian nationalism reproduced colonial racial hierarchy toward the Sudan internally
#complicates(0.50)