British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it

Evidence

Said’s Orientalism is not a book about the Orient per se. It is a book that analyzes Western discourse about the Orient, including Islam and Arab peoples, and how this discourse relates to Western domination over the Orient in light of the colonial projects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 522; For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it; Orientalist knowledge cycles into control over an Orient it activated (+4 more)

Related

• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (similarity 0.95)
• Western scholars controlled the academic study of the Orient even as late as 1927. (similarity 0.91)
• Imperial control depended on constantly refined knowledge of the Orient. (similarity 0.90)
• Orient studies served Europe’s needs, not Asia’s reality (similarity 0.90)
• European knowledge about the Orient served domination rather than truth. (similarity 0.90)
• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination (similarity 0.90)
• European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation (similarity 0.89)
• Europeans claimed to possess the Orient’s souls beyond territorial power (similarity 0.89)
• Knowledge of the Orient requires conceiving it as ruled by Europe (similarity 0.89)
• British occupation was seen as killing the imagined Orient (similarity 0.88)
• Said defines Orientalism as a Western instrument for dominating the Orient (similarity 0.88)
• The Orient was made Oriental through power and domination, not imagination alone (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial administrator attitudes toward the Orient formed a shared consensus (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial expansion widened geographic knowledge but kept Europe at the privileged center (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalist knowledge served to deepen European suzerainty over Asia (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Orientalist knowledge cycles into control over an Orient it activated #expands (0.90)
• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it #expands (0.85)
• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination #expands (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206
• European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation #expands (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 522
• The Orient was made Oriental through power and domination, not imagination alone #corroborates (0.80)