On the Imperial Roads to National-Colonialism; Iranian and Iraqi National Armies on the British Roads to Occupy Kurdistan Mainstream understandings, both from left and right camps, conceive the relationship between the Western Imperialist powers and the nationalists in the Global South to be of an antagonistic character. It is also a commonplace, from their perspective, that the whole issue of the “minorities” in the Global South is the production of the imperialists’ intervention into the internal affairs of the former “nations”. This paper proposes that both of these claims are the distortion of historical realities experienced by non-ruling indigenous people in the Global South: Modern nation-state building in these countries, and the marginalization of the non-sovereign identities, were the (by)products of the imperialist intervention by the European powers. The infrastructures and governance technologies developed by the European powers for their imperial agenda both before and during the World War One proved to be key for the ruling classes in the Global South to territorialize and institutionalize their powers and to impose their domination over the indigenous population. The occupation of Kurdistan by the Iran and Iraqi armies in the course of the 1920s is one of the best showcases in this regard. In this paper, I shed lights on the significance of road building for nation-state formation, and by focusing on the stories of two roads built by the British in Southern and Eastern Kurdistan, in 1918 to 1927 respectively, I discuss how this imperialist legacy informed state building by Iran and Iraq in Kurdistan. Key words: Imperialism, National-Colonialism, Sovereignty, Nation-State, Kurdistan, Modern Roads.