Colonial legal reform created the colonized subject as a replica of the European citizen

Evidence

In Africa, Mamdani explains, the subject races were many. The list extends to the Asians of East Africa, the Indians and “Coloured” of South Africa, the Arabs of Zanzibar, and, of course, to the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi (28). The terrible history of the political divisions that, naturalized by colonial rule, sedimented as cultural distinctions that were later to lead to what has been called “ethnic violence” in Rwanda, is what Mamdani describes and, more importantly, explains and interrogates. Colonial rule produced political identities, identities that it proceeded to naturalize. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 45 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ottoman reforms manufactured a new citizen-subject perceiving through state eyes.; Colonial law restructuring also engineered how colonized people thought about law — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 261; European colonialism reshaped colonized subjects through the same discipline applied at home — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 256 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial rule manufactured political identities that it then naturalized as culture #complicates (0.75) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 45