British consul-general Cromer ran Egypt’s government rather than the khedive

Evidence

Instead of sending his petition to the Egyptian khedive Abbas Hilmï II, Alï Pasha sent it to Lord Cromer, the British consul-general who had run the economic and political infrastructure of the country since the British military occupation of 1882. Alï Pasha questioned the high salaries of British civil employees, comparing them to the very low wages paid to their Egyptian equivalents, and made a particular example of the bloated incomes of the British agents who worked for the Slave Trade Bureau, a commission set up in 1884 to manumit African slaves. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 47</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Egyptian elites petitioned British officials directly, bypassing their own khedive (similarity 0.91)
• A British consul-general, not the khedive, actually governed Egypt after 1882 (similarity 0.91)
• Cromer deemed slavery practically respectable in Egyptian society (similarity 0.82)
• Cromer treated slavery as socially respectable in Egypt and ignored the Anti-Slavery Society (similarity 0.81)
• British officials argued Egyptians were unfit to govern Sudan due to despotism (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian elites evaded British law through claims of European citizenship and consular asylum (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian elites petitioned British officials directly, bypassing their own khedive #corroborates (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 47