Egypt and Sudan experienced the 1910s under British rule in profoundly opposite ways

Evidence

In 1910 Ahmad Lutfï al-Sayyid had argued with great force that the unity of the Nile Valley was sacred, but this projected unity often missed, or dismissed, some of the core issues that more painfully united the cultures along the Nile. It was neither the experience of British occupation nor World War I that integrated Egypt with the Sudan. In fact, the two experienced the political and economic circumstances of 1910 through 1919 very differently. Whereas Egypt had by then a well-established tradition of nationalism, the Sudan had only recently been conquered by Great Britain, and any national voice there remained muted. Whereas the Sudan faced the challenges of recovering from years of famine and the great losses of life suffered by the Mahdist forces in 1899, Egypt’s relative prosperity was overshadowed by the continued and deepening entrenchment of British control over the political system. While Egyptian nationalists lamented the loss of Egypt’s participation in the governing of the Sudan under the terms of the Anglo- Egyptian Condominium, British officials in the Sudan were implementing an educational and political system in which the Muslim communities of the north were separated from non-Muslim tribes in the south. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 781

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s stated goal: concrete differentiation of Egyptian versus Sudanese colonial experience — Egypt’s mature nationalism vs Sudan’s raw post-conquest condition and north-south divide.
• QUESTION: Chase the north-south separation of Muslim and non-Muslim Sudanese communities initiated under the Condominium.