British official Wingate saw good colonial governance as manufacturing a controllable Sudanese nationalism.

Evidence

There is to my mind no doubt that we are face to face with the early beginnings of a Sudanese nation, and it is our business to decide in good time what we are to do with it. I do not speak in any alarmist sense, nor threaten the creation of a “Soudan for the Soudanese” party of Europeanised natives. I mean rather that we have got to recognize that decent government is producing what it ought to produce—a sense of national self-respect—and it is our duty to decide how to turn it to the best account. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 836

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves reader’s thesis: colonial administrators deliberately manufactured national identity as a colonial tool in Sudan, unlike in Egypt.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘good government’ was openly framed by colonists as the production of manageable nationalism — a window into the engineering of national consciousness.