Mehmed Ali consolidated control by abolishing tax farming and destroying the Mamluks

Evidence

During this long period he had managed to tighten Cairo’s control over the provinces by fighting corruption in the local bureaucracy, by conducting a cadastral survey (1813–14) that was crucial in abolishing the tax farming system (iltizām) and in the cancellation of the immunities on agricultural land belonging to mosques and pious foundations (awqāf), and, most importantly, by getting rid in the infamous Massacre of the Citadel (1811) of the power of the military landlords, the Mamluks, who had been in effective control of the province for centuries in spite of Ottoman legal suzerainty. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 71