Published 2007
Table of 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 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.…”
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