Mehmed Ali forbade treating conscription like forced corvée labor

Evidence

In issuing the conscripting officers their orders Mehmed Ali tried to impress upon them that they had to handle this important task delicately. He wrote to Ibrahim Pasha telling him that he had been informed that the conscripting officers were gathering men from the villages in the same manner as collecting men for corvée. He told him that this method had to be stopped at once. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 467

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Albanian resistance and Sudanese failures forced conscription on Mehmed Ali; Mehmed Ali punished civilians harshly to deter dissent; Mehmed Ali faced constraints that forced him to deviate from his own regulations (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Albanian resistance and Sudanese failures forced conscription on Mehmed Ali; Mehmed Ali punished civilians harshly to deter dissent; Mehmed Ali faced constraints that forced him to deviate from his own regulations (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Mehmed Ali coerced mass forced labor on a scale beyond Ottoman governors #complicates (0.85) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 72
• Mehmed Ali adopted hidden disciplinary power to make rule tolerable, not humane #complicates (0.80)
• Mehmed Ali faced constraints that forced him to deviate from his own regulations #complicates (0.78)
• Mehmed Ali punished civilians harshly to deter dissent #complicates (0.75)
• Egyptian officials routinely disobeyed Mehmed Ali’s regulations #complicates (0.74) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1086