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The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj

The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj

Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf

by James Onley
Hardback
Publication Date: 22/11/2007

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The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj is a study of one of the most forbidding frontier zones of Britain's Indian Empire. The Gulf Residency, responsible for Britain's relationship with Eastern Arabia and Southern Persia, was part of an extensive network of political residencies that surrounded and protected British India. Based on extensive archival research in both the Gulf and Britain, this book examines how Britain's Political Resident in the Gulf
and his very small cadre of British officers maintained the Pax Britannica on the waters of the Gulf, protected British interests throughout the region, and managed political relations with the dozens of Arab
rulers and governors on both shores of the Gulf. James Onley looks at the secret to the Gulf Residency's effectiveness - the extent to which the British worked within the indigenous political systems of the Gulf. He examines the way in which Arab rulers in need of protection collaborated with the Resident to maintain the Pax Britannica, while influential men from affluent Arab, Persian, and Indian merchant families served as the Resident's 'native agents' (compradors)
in over half of the political posts within the Gulf Residency.
ISBN:
9780199228102
9780199228102
Category:
Asian history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
22-11-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
380
Dimensions (mm):
223x145x24mm
Weight:
0.6kg

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