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[247]-269) and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; Prelude to the rise of the Albusaidi Dynasty in East Africa; Oman's links with India and East Africa: historical problems and perspectives; Migrations and the interaction of commerce and religion in Omani and Swahili cultures; The prominence of the Banyans in Indian Ocean commerce; The importance of commerce to the early Albusaidi rulers; The emergence of Muscat as a political-commercial centre 327 $aDevelopments in Omani and Indian Ocean commerce by the turn of the nineteenth centuryThe emergence of British policy towards Oman: 1798 1804; The 1798 Treaty between Oman and Britain: origins and consequences; The Wahhabis and the beginnings of Muscat's reliance on Britain; British policy towards Oman under the first Wahhabi threat: 1804 14; The rise and early struggles of Said b Sultan (r. 1806 56); The Albusaidi move to Zanzibar: exercise in empire building or survival?; Commercial, political and strategic attractions of East Africa; Said b Sultan's relationship with merchants from India 327 $aThe commercial potential and opposition to Said b SultanThe suppression of Omani interests in the Gulf and the Albusaidi move to Zanzibar; Said b Sultan's move to Zanzibar: a new interpretation; The development of Omani commerce and British reaction; The re-emergence of British policy towards Oman: post-1833; The 1833 Omani-American Treaty: catalyst for change of British policy; The British role in the resolution of the Albusaidi-Mazrui conflict; The 'Omani' and the 'Indian' roles in the nineteenth-century commercial expansion; Role of Muscat in the rise of Zanzibar 327 $aMuscat and Zanzibar: the resurgence of the Omani economyBeginnings of the integration of Muscat and Zanzibar into the world economy; Expansion of the Omani entrept and agricultural economy; Internal and external factors in the subjugation of Oman; Commercial and political rivalry and British encroachments in East Africa; The consolidation of British authority in the Gulf; British encroachments in East Africa; The subordination of Muscat's rulers and their associates from India; British consul's exploitation of the nationality question and the antislavery crusade 327 $aThe subjugation of the 'Indians'Post-1856 succession dispute and British intervention; The British role in the dismemberment of Oman; Conclusion; Appendices; Said b Sultan's 1844 letter to Aberdeen; Said b Sultan's will, 1850; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aM. 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