British forces took ten years to suppress provincial resistance to Egypt’s 1880–82 uprising.

Evidence

The image appears, for example, in Muhammad Majdi’s Eighteen Days in Upper Egypt, an account of his trip up the Nile in 1892 on a Thomas Cook steamer. The context is indicative of the changes taking place in Egypt. Majdi was an official in the Egyptian Court of Appeal, and travelled as a tourist on a boat that carried mail, colonial officials, and officers of the army of occupation. The year 1892 was Majdi’s first opportunity to tour Upper Egypt since the nationalist uprising of 1880–82, for, as I mentioned in the last chapter, it had taken the British ten years to suppress provincial resistance to the occupation. As he boarded the steamer and set off from Cairo, he described the country as a body, whose heart was its capital city. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 489

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