The Arabian frontier of the British Raj : merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / James Onley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Onley, James, 1966- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India.

Persian Gulf Region--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Persian Gulf Region.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Persian Gulf Region.

Great Britain.

Persian Gulf Region--Foreign relations--India.

India--Foreign relations--Persian Gulf Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj' tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites.

Contents:

Conventions, terminology, and transliteration

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The subject

The sources

Overview

Empire

British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa

British India's residency system in Asia and Africa

The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763

The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947

The residency system and Britain's Indian empire

Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire

The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947

Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822

Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971

Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900

Agents of empire

British India's native agency system in Asia

British India's native agency system in the Gulf

British motives for employing native agents

Robinson's theory of collaboration

The Indian origins of the native agency system

The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf

Early native agents in the Gulf

The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf

Advantages for the British

Disadvantages for the British

Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents

The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain

The agency building

The agency's finances and organization

The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900

The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900

The agents' political duties, 1872-1900

The agents' social duties

British India's native agents in Bahrain

The banias, c.1816-34

The Safar family agents

Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42

Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62

Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4

Years of abeyance, 1865-71

Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84

Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91

Temporary agents, 1891-3

Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900

Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900

The native agency staff after 1900

Challenges to the agents, 1834-97

The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf

The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900

The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9

The argument for a political agency, 1897-9

The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900

The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire

Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa

British India's residency system, 1880s

Gulf residency organization

Gulf residency staff

Gulf residency budget

Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877

British military establishments in the Gulf

Appendix B rulers and residents

Rulers of Bahrain

Residents in Bushire

Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island)

Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire)

Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain)

Governors of Bombay

Viceroys of India

Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain

Native agents

Native agency staff

British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.)

Merchant grades

Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states

Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-337) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03621-7

0-19-160776-2

1-281-15012-6

9786611150129

0-19-152785-8

OCLC:

437096031