Thousands of Egyptian soldiers and bureaucrats worked in the Sudan after 1919

Evidence

Kämil’s outraged protest at this indignity leaves out an important element. As Fawzï’s memoirs show, the menial work required of Egyptian soldiers had previously been performed by Sudanese slaves—either slave soldiers or slaves belonging personally to Egyptian soldiers and officers, as in Fawzï Pasha’s case. In the Sudan during the Turkïya, slaves were often conscripted as soldiers in the army regiments known as the jihädïya. By the 1890s they actually outnumbered the contracted Egyptian soldiers by a ratio of two to one. These slave soldiers were absolutely essential to the maintenance of the military camps, work that presumably included the tasks Kämil so dreaded for Egyptian soldiers. His indignation also echoed with resentment over Egyptians’ loss of authority over the Sudanese themselves, and the consequent shame at occupying the low status once belonging to the Sudanese. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 722 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian soldiers felt the loss of Sudan more personally than other Egyptians did.; Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians; The Sudan’s Turkish administration included native-born Egyptians increasingly over time. (+1 more)

Related

• Egyptian soldiers felt the loss of Sudan more personally than other Egyptians did. (similarity 0.90)
• Slave soldiers outnumbered Egyptian soldiers two to one in the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Sudanese lumped Egyptian soldiers with their Ottoman Turkish oppressors (similarity 0.84)
• Sudanese perceived Egyptian soldiers as ‘Turks,’ destabilizing Egypt’s civilizing ideology (similarity 0.83)
• The Sudan saw even Arabic-speaking Egyptians as foreign Turks. (similarity 0.83)
• Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians (similarity 0.82)
• Sudanese labeled Egyptian soldiers as Turks, stinging Egyptian national pride (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian officers simultaneously suffered British supervision and pursued Egypt’s own civilizing mission in Sudan. (similarity 0.81)
• The Sudan served simultaneously as Egypt’s penal exile and its soldiers’ promotion ground (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan colonial status by naming it Upper Egypt (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian officers were simultaneously targets and agents of colonial power (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.81)
• European administrators branded Egyptian governors in Sudan as despotic slave dealers. (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian Sudanese colony was administered increasingly by Arabic-speaking native Egyptians #expands (0.50)
• Slave soldiers outnumbered Egyptian soldiers two to one in the Sudan #complicates (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 722
• The Sudan’s Turkish administration included native-born Egyptians increasingly over time. #expands (0.40)