Egyptian nationalist families’ support for Nile Valley unity was partly economic self-interest

Evidence

Political strategies also motivated the stance of Sharawï and her male colleagues toward the unity of the Nile Valley. The Sharawï’s and the Zaghlül’s, to name two important families, were large landowners with interests in the territorial integrity of the Nile River, an integrity they feared would be damaged by the British-organized Gezira irrigation scheme in the Sudan itself, intended to promote cotton farming. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 861

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to wider literature on landowners shaping nationalist agendas in Egypt; reinforces the reader’s comparative Egypt-Sudan coloniality framework since the Gezira scheme was a British colonial agricultural tool in Sudan.
• ADDENDUM: Relates to the reader’s interest in how colonial tools (the British Gezira cotton scheme) operated differently in Sudan versus British exploitation in Egypt.