Egyptian officers were simultaneously targets and agents of colonial power

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian elites deliberately treated the French as colonial guides; Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism.; British officers commanding the Egyptian army suppressed Egyptian soldiers’ patriotism (+3 more)

Related

• Egyptian officers simultaneously suffered British supervision and pursued Egypt’s own civilizing mission in Sudan. (similarity 0.94)
• Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism. (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian colonial officers simultaneously resented and reproduced colonial hierarchies. (similarity 0.87)
• Sudanese elites debated unity with Egypt under British surveillance (similarity 0.86)
• British officers commanding the Egyptian army suppressed Egyptian soldiers’ patriotism (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.84)
• British officer control of the Egyptian army suppressed Egyptian patriotic feeling. (similarity 0.84)
• Sudanese and Nubians moved into Egyptian cities as colonial subjects arrived (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.83)
• Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians (similarity 0.83)
• Sudanese themselves debated unity with Egypt under British oversight. (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian soldiers felt the loss of Sudan more personally than other Egyptians did. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian officers simultaneously suffered British supervision and pursued Egypt’s own civilizing mission in Sudan. #exemplifies (0.90)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. #exemplifies (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121