Families were punished for resisting the Pasha’s call-up of their children.

Evidence

105 Ibid, p. 365, letter dated 13 Za 1245/6 May 1830. See also the case of the mother who chopped off the finger of her son who had been released from one of the Pasha’s schools but was asked to return. She was given 200 lashes; S/6/2/1/5, p. 52, on 7 L 1264/6 September 1848. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1493