Conscription transformed the relation between Egyptian government and governed

Evidence

On a deeper level, then, this chapter has argued that the significance of conscription in Mehmed Ali’s army exceeds the sheer weight of the number of those gathered or its impact on the demographic composition of the countryside. Conscription, the population’s aversion and reaction to it, and the government’s attempts to counteract this resistance formed the impetus for the implementation in Egypt of a radically different system of controlling and governing the country. Resorting to physical force as represented by the conscription gang was no longer thought effective in tapping the country’s human resources. Gradually a shift to more subtle, hidden techniques of power took place, represented by the tezkere, the register, and ultimately the census. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 490 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The army’s reliance on central supply and conscription created Egypt’s modern state; Egyptian peasant conscription began as a three-year substitute for Turkish troops; Egyptian peasants experienced conscription as oppressive taxation rather than patriotic service (+14 more)

Related

• Peasant resistance to conscription catalyzed a new regime of state control (similarity 0.92)
• Conscription pressure drove Egypt’s first national census by 1845 (similarity 0.91)
• Egyptian peasant conscription began as a three-year substitute for Turkish troops (similarity 0.90)
• Egyptian peasants experienced conscription as oppressive taxation rather than patriotic service (similarity 0.89)
• Peasant resistance to conscription drove Egypt’s shift toward administrative power (similarity 0.87)
• Conscription drove Egyptian peasants to refuse marriage and childbearing (similarity 0.87)
• Mehmed Ali founded a conscription-based army in Egypt in 1820 (similarity 0.86)
• Bureaucratic inscription gave the state predictive power over deserters (similarity 0.86)
• Conscription gave the Egyptian state power over peasants that Ottoman and Mamluk rulers lacked (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into the modern army (similarity 0.85)
• Within roughly a decade Egypt replaced Mamluk-style warriors with a trained modern army (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian peasants overwhelmingly resisted conscription despite ideological appeals, via open rebellion (similarity 0.85)
• Over 30,000 Egyptians rebelled against Mehmed Ali’s conscription in 1824 (similarity 0.84)
• Conscription aimed to drastically reshape the peasant soldier’s body and daily habits (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt’s modern army was founded through conscription in 1820–21 (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian peasants strongly resisted conscription into the modern army #exemplifies (0.75)
• Egyptian peasants experienced conscription as oppressive taxation rather than patriotic service #expands (0.70)
• Peasant resistance to conscription catalyzed a new regime of state control #expands (0.70) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 490
• Conscription pressure drove Egypt’s first national census by 1845 #expands (0.65)
• Mehmed Ali founded a conscription-based army in Egypt in 1820 #expands (0.65) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 70
• Egyptian conscription pioneered Foucault’s disciplinary power on soldiers’ bodies #exemplifies (0.60)
• Conscription drove Egyptian peasants to refuse marriage and childbearing #exemplifies (0.60) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1355