Egyptian nationalists could oppose British rule yet embrace civilizing-mission colonialism.

Evidence

Although he strongly protested the British occupation of Egypt, Fawzï believed fully in the idea of a hierarchy of civilizations in the world of the late nineteenth century, according to which schema the advanced cultures bore both the right and the responsibility to colonize and “civilize” societies considered less developed. In Fawzï’s perception, the acts of empire united a culture and made it a nation; the agents of his empire were therefore Egyptians, native-born and nationalist-minded. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 510

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s comparative framework — Egypt as colonizer of Sudan while colonized by Britain; resonates with Chatterjee’s anti-colonial nationalism borrowing the civilizing schema.
• DEEPTHINKING: The double position — colonizer abroad while colonized at home — is a genuinely paradigm-shifting frame for understanding intermediate coloniality, not just a single factual claim.