Egyptian bureaucracy constructed a politically charged cultural geography of the Sudan.

Evidence

It explores the motivations and nature of this conquest and the subsequent sense of the cultural and political geography of the Sudan that developed within a growing bureaucracy of native-born Egyptians, a geography that was heavily politicized by the end of Muhammad `Alï’s reign. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 113

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Said’s Orientalism and the idea of empire as cartographic knowledge-production — this is the Egyptian iteration of a pattern usually analyzed for European empires.