Bagdad Pachalic Affairs
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Bagdad Pachalic Affairs
- Date:
- 1846/1846
- Description:
- Abstract: This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 134 of 1846, dated 14 November 1846. The enclosure is dated 8 September 1846.The enclosure consists of a copy of a despatch from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], to Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], relating to affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic [Baghdad Pashalik]. The despatch is copied to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, and the Governor-General of India, for information.Rawlinson forwards to Wellesley copies of two letters received from Nejib Pasha [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā], Governor of Bagdad, which the latter wishes to be transmitted to HM Envoy and Minister at the Court of Tehran. In the letters, Nejib Pasha solicits the Envoy’s co-operation in persuading the Persian Government to: issue orders for the removal of ‘rebel’ subjects Ahmed Pasha former ruler of Sulimanieh [Aḥmad Pāshā Bābān of Sulaymaniyah] and Russool Pasha [Rasūl Pāshā], former Governor of Rowanduz [Ruwandiz or Rawandiz], from the Persian frontier town of Ooshney [Oshnaviyeh?]; and to arrange for the appropriate punishment of Abdullah Beg, Sharaf Baini [‘Abdullāh Beg of the Sharaf Baynī tribe, also spelled Sharriff in this item], a Persian subject who previously joined with Ahmed Pasha in attacking Sulimanieh and who has committed many ‘outrages’ in Turkish [Ottoman] territory in the past few years.Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Rebels
HM Ambassador to Iran
Government of Persia - Geographic region:
- Pachalic of Bagdad
- Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100156189964.0x00000c_ar
81055/vdc_100156189964.0x00000c_en
IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 106-118
IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 106-118