Colonial rule bound Indo loyalty to hierarchical complicity against natives

Evidence

The political dreams were different but elements remained the same: to make of them modest but respectable loyalists whose political claims would be contingent on continued denial of native rights, whose investments in a racial hierarchy would remain strong, but whose sense of entitlement would be limited to legal European equivalency, not equal social or political status. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 797