Mehmed Ali greeted crowds personally, unlike prior pashas
Evidence
Having mounted his splendid horse, he saluted everyone, bowing gracefully to the crowd on either side. This conduct greatly surprised the people, who, when their previous pashas condescended to walk abroad, had been obliged to bend the knee, and bow the head, scarcely daring to raise their eyes, until the August presence had passed by. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 681
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Contrasts the older Ottoman-Pasha mode of sovereign display with Mehmed Ali’s newer public-relations style—valuable for the reader’s Ottoman-British comparison.