Imperial political ideology directly shaped which history could be studied

Evidence

The journal was devoted almost entirely to Ottoman history, with occasional articles on pre-Ottoman Turkish Anatolia. In a society under Imperial patronage, under a government devoted to the principle of Ottomanism—of a common Ottoman citizenship and allegiance as the basis of political identity—it is hardly surprising that the field of study is in the main limited to the Ottoman Empire. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 2019

Categorization

• XREF: The patronage-bound scope of Ottoman historiography under Ottomanism parallels the scholarship boundaries imposed by Western sponsors on the disciplines of the colonized — same dynamic the reader tracks in the Frankfurt School’s self-censorship for American funders. — connects to: Empire generates the scholarly paradigms that then legitimize its interventions. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 263