Egyptian nationalists denied Britain any legal claim to the Sudan.

Evidence

The Sudan, as is clear to the reader, is a piece of Egypt and has been stripped from her with no legal right, because the Egyptian khedivial government has not the least right to give up even a foot of her land or allow someone else to possess it. With this to be considered, the Sudan is still Egyptian property, and the British do not have the right to any claims to it. It returned to khedivial authority after almost twenty years of the dervishes’ upheaval, and even if British soldiers participated with us in the reconquest, we did not need their help. Our army, even less than our whole army, would have been enough to accomplish this result. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 729

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s core comparison: Egypt itself deployed colonial ownership language against the Sudan while being colonized.