British Occupation, 1882-1919

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Judith Cochran

Yayın yılı:

2021

Yayıncı:

Routledge

Dil:

en

The Egyptian government was almost bankrupt by 1876. Ismail Pasha was forced to appoint a European commission to supervise the collection of state revenues and the repayment of government debts. A group of Egyptian officers and civil servants, many of them trained in government schools founded by Mohammed Ali or Ismail, rebelled against their privileged Turkish overlords and their European advisors. In 1882, the British army and the British agent and counsel general became the actual governing forces behind the Turkish khedive, who remained as the titular head of Egypt. Facilities and curricula improvement required money, but the financial investment in education during the British occupation was minimal. The only difference was that the British trained the secular elite to be English speaking governmental bureaucrats rather than members of a military machine. The defense that can be given British policy is that they may not have had bad intentions, but rather simply allowed matters to take their slow evolutionary course.

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