The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj
Subtitle: Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Gulf (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: December 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199228102
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; British Empire; Asia - India & South Asia; History / Egypt; Middle East - Egypt; British occupation, 1765-1947; Foreign relations; Great  Britain; Great Britain; India; Persian Gulf Region
Description: "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 Residents in the Gulf and his very small cadre of British officers maintained the Pax Britannica on the waters 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."--Jacket.