Colonial regimes preemptively censored openly political demands from public forums.

Evidence

Other matters of state reluctantly had been shelved as inappropriate. Among these were demands for parliamentary representation, a reduction of the “autocratic” power of the Minister of Colonies, and freedom of the press. All of these items were removed from the agenda, at the Governor-General’s request, on the grounds that they were too overtly political and potentially incendiary for a public colonial forum. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 480

Categorization

• XREF: Direct evidence for the epistemic boundary policing between ‘acceptable social grievance’ and ‘incendiary political demand’ that organizes this book’s argument about colonial commonsense.