Conscription failures forced Egyptian officials to track population numbers

Evidence

As early as 1825, for example, it was realized that to replace the soldiers who had fled or who were sent back to their villages, local officials had to know how many men were to be conscripted from their provinces in the first place. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 483

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• Knowledge gaps in conscription numbers forced Egypt to compile population data (similarity 0.93)
• Conscription arose only after Albanian insubordination and failed Sudanese recruitment (similarity 0.86)
• Conscription shortfalls drove Egypt to build a modern surveillance state (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian conscription depended on village shaykhs who often resisted state demands (similarity 0.84)
• Conscription losses drove Egypt to build policing, hospitals, and censuses. (similarity 0.83)
• Conscription transformed the relation between Egyptian government and governed (similarity 0.82)
• Albanian resistance and Sudanese failures forced conscription on Mehmed Ali (similarity 0.82)
• Egypt conscripted 30,000 fellahin into training within a year. (similarity 0.82)
• Only 20,000 of 48,000 Egyptian conscripts were fit for military service (similarity 0.82)
• Conscription stripped households of their primary breadwinners across Egypt. (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt’s conscription needs drove Mehmed Ali to target Syria for manpower (similarity 0.81)
• Conscript armies bled recruits heavily during transport to training camps. (similarity 0.81)
• Conscription drained Egyptian manpower, making Syrian levies an appealing reserve (similarity 0.81)
• Conscription gave the Egyptian state power over peasants that Ottoman and Mamluk rulers lacked (similarity 0.81)
• Local Egyptian officials resisted conscription to protect village agricultural production (similarity 0.81)