Imperial administration confirmed scholarly Orientalist doctrine about the Orient

Evidence

The discoveries of Westerners about the manifest and modern Orient acquired a pressing urgency as Western territorial acquisition in the Orient increased. Thus what the scholarly Orientalist defined as the “essential” Orient was sometimes contradicted, but in many cases was confirmed, when the Orient became an actual administrative obligation. Certainly Cromer’s theories about the Oriental—theories acquired from the traditional Orientalist archive—were vindicated plentifully as he ruled millions of Orientals in actual fact. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 560

Categorization

• XREF: Cromer’s case is a concrete instance of the theory-practice feedback loop that later Islamophobia readings will map onto colonial and postcolonial Muslim-majority administration.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 560