Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884

Evidence

The chapter concludes with the ways in which Sudanese figures debated the issue of unity with Egypt under the watchful eyes of British administrators in the Sudan, and a discussion of how the dualism of the colonized colonizer was viewed by people in the Sudan, nominally colonized by both Great Britain and Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

A further irony in the situation was the way Fawzï justified his right to high rank through his actions as a colonizing officer of the Egyptian army. If anything clearly emerges from these parallels it is that the idea of colonialism was much more fluid, much less dependent on the European model. After all, Egyptians in 1882 were negotiators familiar with the Ottoman Empire and fearful of the threat of European colonization, and yet also eager to see themselves as a nation in a synonymous position of power. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egypt’s own colonizing of Sudan shaped its sense of nationhood; British occupation displaced Ottoman authority and severed Egypt from its dependency the Sudan; Egyptian rule made Sudan the first interior African region to feel Western colonial tensions. (+13 more)

Related

• Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 (similarity 0.93)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.90)
• A Sudan rebellion coincided with the British occupation of Egypt in 1884 (similarity 0.90)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.90)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.90)
• British rule in Egypt was informal while its invasion of the Sudan was direct. (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt’s informal British occupation contrasted with its formal 1821 colonial rule over the Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Britain occupied Egypt while the Mahdï seized the Sudan in 1882-83 (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule (similarity 0.88)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.87)
• Milner argued Sudan was never genuinely subdued by or amalgamated with Egypt (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptians under Muhammad Ali internalized empire as they mapped Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• British occupation displaced Ottoman authority and severed Egypt from its dependency the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Isma’il’s Sudan expansion debts caused Egypt’s foreign control and British occupation (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 #corroborates (0.90)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #corroborates (0.90) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. #corroborates (0.90) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121
• Egyptian rule over Sudan constituted a mini-empire within the Ottoman framework #expands (0.70)
• A Sudan rebellion coincided with the British occupation of Egypt in 1884 #corroborates (0.60)
• Egypt conquered Sudan before Egypt itself existed as a nation-state, as Ottoman province #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. #expands (0.50)