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001 2007028205
003 DLC
005 20090519085227.0
008 070709s2007 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aDS326$b.O55 2007
082 00 $a954.03$222
100 1 $aOnley, James,$d1966-
245 14 $aThe Arabian frontier of the British Raj :$bmerchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf /$cJames Onley.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2007.
300 $axxxv, 352 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-337) and index.
505 0 $aConventions, 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 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.
651 0 $aPersian Gulf Region$xHistory.
651 0 $aIndia$xHistory$yBritish occupation, 1765-1947.
651 0 $aPersian Gulf Region$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zPersian Gulf Region.
651 0 $aPersian Gulf Region$xForeign relations$zIndia.
651 0 $aIndia$xForeign relations$zPersian Gulf Region.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0803/2007028205.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0907/2007028205-d.html