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craiglindsley on 28 Feb 13n a comparative context, ethnic sovereignty can be seen as an important political factor in other cases of rule by a conquest group, particularly when that group is in the minority and the conquered are in the majority. Normans in England, Mongols in Russia, British in India, Turks in Byzantium, and Afrikaners in South Africa all relied on ethnic differentiation between themselves and their subject populations as a means of control. All endeavored, with varying success and through various means, to maintain those differences and thereby uphold the boundaries between ruler and ruled.