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.