Table of Contents

Part I Prelude to the rise of the Albusaidi Dynasty in East Africa 1 Oman’s links with India and East Africa: historical problems and perspectives 2 The importance of commerce to the early Albusaidi rulers 3 The emergence of British policy towards Oman: 1798–1804, 4 British policy towards Oman under the first Wahhabi threat: 1804, 5 Commercial, political and strategic attractions of East Africa 6 The suppression of Omani interests in the Gulf and the Albusaidi move to Zanzibar Part III The development of Omani commerce and British reaction 7 The re-emergence of British policy towards Oman: post-1833, 8 The ‘Omani’ and the ‘Indian’ roles in the nineteenth-century commercial expansion 9 Beginnings of the integration of Muscat and Zanzibar into the world economy, Part IV Internal and external factors in the subjugation of Oman 10 Commercial and political rivalry and British encroachments in East Africa 11 The subordination of Muscat’s rulers and their associates from India 164 British consul’s exploitation of the nationality question and the antislavery crusade, The subjugation of the ‘Indians’ 12 Post-1856 succession dispute and British intervention