Mahmud Barzanji revolts were a series of armed Bearing_arms uprisings by Kurdish Sheykh Mahmud Barzanji against the Iraqi authority in newly conquered Conquering British Mesopotamia and later the British Mandate in Iraq .

Following his first insurrection in May 1919 , Sheykh Mahmud was imprisoned Arrest and eventually exiled to India for a one-year period .

Sheykh Mahmud retreated Escaping into mountains , and eventually reached Arriving terms with the independent Kingdom of Iraq in 1932 , over his return Arriving from the underground .

Sheykh Mahmud revolts are considered the first chapter of the modern Iraqi–Kurdish conflict Hostile_encounter .