Correspondence discusses the rising of the Bohtan Kurds against the Turkish [Ottoman] Government and its impact on British imperial communications. Letters discuss the leadership of the insurgents led by Yezdisheer Bey (nephew of Beder Khan Bey) and how they obtained money from the Mosul Treasur...
The item consists of letters discussing an uprising in Bussorah [Basra] and Bagdad [Baghdad] involving the Bani Tamim. The correspondents are Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Bagdad; I M Dalrymple, Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the For...