Colonial rulers sincerely believed their own religious and self-interested ideology
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- Colonial studies centers reason and Enlightenment principles as foundations of rule. (similarity 0.85)
- Colonial sentiment discipline targeted colonizers themselves, not only the colonized (similarity 0.85)
- Colonial archives were sites of expectation and conjured futures, not mere records. (similarity 0.84)
- Historians should read along the colonial grain before reading against it (similarity 0.84)
- Colonial archives preserve fantasies of what might yet be, not just events. (similarity 0.84)
- Revolutionary regimes attract blind faith, not grounded trust (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial officials distrusted the black police force and armed white militias instead (similarity 0.83)
- Official colonial correspondence was saturated by speculative, contested street-level voices. (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial administrators promoted racial division to secure white loyalty and preserve slavery (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial surplus men developed the talent of fascination that made them extreme party leaders. (similarity 0.83)
- Trust in rulers is a realistic assessment of irreversibility, not psychic compulsion (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial rule of India by its own laws required European mastery of Sanskrit. (similarity 0.82)
- Colonial rescue narratives portray the non-Western world as needing the West. (similarity 0.82)
- Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.82)
- Colonial rulers taught subjects to weaponize distrust as a governing technique. (similarity 0.81)