British India – Kingdom of Egypt relations
 
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The British military occupied Egypt in 1882 to protect financial interests in the country, culminating in a violent war. Britain won, restored the Khedival authority in Cairo, and established a 'veiled protectorate' over Ottoman-Egypt until the First World War. British colonialists coveted Egypt not only for its riches but also as the gateway to British India, the crown jewel of the British Empire. Great Britain’s sprawling colonial enterprise created a transcontinental geostrategic and geo-economic system that connected Indus Valley to Egypt to Britain via the Suez Canal. Moslem Indians and Egyptians took up the fight against Imperial British colonialism almost simultaneously and the three collective nations gained their independence within a decade of one another.
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