By James Onley
The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj is a research of 1 of the main forbidding frontier zones of Britain's Indian Empire. The Gulf Residency, accountable for Britain's dating with jap Arabia and Southern Persia, was once a part of an in depth community of political residencies that surrounded and guarded British India. in accordance with wide archival examine in either the Gulf and Britain, this booklet examines how Britain's Political Resident within the Gulf and his very small cadre of British officials maintained the Pax Britannica at the waters of the Gulf, safe British pursuits in the course of the quarter, and controlled political relatives with the handfuls of Arab rulers and governors on either seashores of the Gulf.
James Onley seems to be on the mystery to the Gulf Residency's effectiveness--the quantity to which the British labored in the indigenous political structures of the Gulf. He examines the way Arab rulers short of safeguard collaborated with the Resident to keep up the Pax Britannica, whereas influential males from prosperous Arab, Persian, and Indian service provider households served because the Resident's "native brokers" (compradors) in over 1/2 the political posts in the Gulf Residency.
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To a jealous outside world ‘a Political’ might be a term of abuse. To us it was a term of glory. Sir Basil Gould, 1957¹ Britain’s informal empire and spheres of influence surrounding and protecting British India were divided into a vast array of imperial diplomatic districts, each headed by an officer from the Indian Political Service (IPS). The above memoir of an IPS officer reflects the official view that the IPS was composed only of Britons. But the IPS was much larger than Sir Basil Gould and his colleagues liked to believe, for it included a great number of Eurasian, Indian, Arab, and Persian officers among its ranks—men who have largely escaped the notice of historians.
But tracing the history of Britain’s native agencies in Asia remains a difficult enterprise because records of native agents and assistant agents are extremely scarce. ¹¹ The only records of the Bahrain Native Agency are some of the agents’ intelligence reports on local affairs received by the Gulf Resident, copies of some of the Gulf Residents’ instructions to these agents, and the few communications in which the Residents discussed the agents’ actions with their superiors in India. ¹² In Bahrain, the only surviving records of the Native Agency are the agents’ private papers left to their descendants.
Mohammed al-Ghatam, then President of the University of Bahrain (later Minister of Education), gave me a flat at the University’s Sakhir campus and use of all University facilities. Khalid Al Khalifah, then Vice-President of the University (now a member of Bahrain’s Majlis al-Shurah), took me under his wing during my first few weeks in Bahrain. His timely assistance enabled me to hit the ground running, for which I am grateful. The support, contacts, and research material provided by the Bahrain Historical and Archaeological Society were invaluable to me, and the Society’s building (appropriately located beside the old Gulf Residency headquarters in Jufair) became my second home in Bahrain.