Orientalist scholarship functioned as working equipment for imperial rule.

Evidence

However, when Curzon referred somewhat inelegantly to Oriental studies as “the necessary furniture of Empire,” he was putting into a static image the transactions by which Englishmen and natives conducted their business and kept their places. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 535

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘furniture of Empire’ image connects to the module’s scaffold on how knowledge production serves domination.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 535