Egyptian officers simultaneously suffered British supervision and pursued Egypt’s own civilizing mission in Sudan.

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)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalist empire-building co-opted British instruments of hegemony yet still failed; Egyptian satirists linked Sudanese conquest to Egypt’s own subjugation; Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (+6 more)

Related

• Egyptian officers were simultaneously targets and agents of colonial power (similarity 0.94)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.91)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.91)
• Sudanese elites debated unity with Egypt under British surveillance (similarity 0.90)
• Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.87)
• Sudanese themselves debated unity with Egypt under British oversight. (similarity 0.87)
• Slavery and control of Sudan were inextricably linked in Egyptian and British views. (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese and Nubians moved into Egyptian cities as colonial subjects arrived (similarity 0.86)
• British colonial strategy drove a wedge between Sudanese and Egyptians (similarity 0.86)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium masked British dominance behind nominal Egyptian partnership (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. #corroborates (0.85) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121
• Egyptian nationalism paired aggression toward Sudan with defensiveness toward Britain. #expands (0.80)
• Egyptian and Sudanese elites contested who should lead the civilizing mission, not its validity. #complicates (0.70)