European colonialism reshaped colonized subjects through the same discipline applied at home

Evidence

By contrast, European colonialism, the Dutch included, was intrusive and penetrating to a degree that aimed to, and did, change the very constitution of the colonized subject, to fashion it in new ways, to act on its body through a system of juridicality, to discipline it, to subjugate it into docility, just as European governmentality had performed its own subjects at home. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 256

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Pairs with the ‘Grafting & Growth’ tree-infrastructure piece only loosely, but the body-subjection language plugs into Foucauldian discipline relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’ themes of sovereign power over bodies.
• XREF: connects to: The child-adult analogy framed colonial rule as pedagogical through the 1940s. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 244