Egyptian state bureaucracy penalized families of missing officers with lower pensions

Evidence

In the fourteen years between the defeat of `Uräbï’s forces and the reconquest of the Sudan in 1898, the aura of tragedy that hung over the images of Khartoum and Gordon turned Fawzï Pasha into an enigmatic hero in Egyptian newspapers and stories and created a legal dilemma for the Ministries of War and Finance. For about five years, no one in Cairo knew if Fawzï was dead or alive. This purgatory of official existence made life very difficult for the families of officers like Fawzï, because without proof of their loved ones’ survival, the Ministry of Finance paid them lower pensions and benefits. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 533

Categorization

• XREF: Shows an Egyptian/British administrative tool (bureaucratic pension rules) operating against its own nationals, fitting the coloniality-of-Egypt framework alongside Sudan.