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Bahrain—contd. Muscat, 67-8; protection for Gulf
14n; British government relations, States, 38, 45, 254, 256; regular
31 O'; assoc, membership of inter officers seconded to Muscat armed
national organisations, 76, 113n; forces, 54,205,218,238; suppression
Arab League, 77; treaty-making of Omani revolt, 54, 157, 244; sover
capacity, 102 IT; transit dues agree eignty over shaikhdom rights, 73-4,
ment with Saudi Arabia, 102-3; 79; constitutional law, 80
nationality laws, 124 f; Persian claim British Government of India, 8
to sovereignty, 167-95; tribute paid British Nationality Act 1948, 122
to Wahhabi rulers, 169, 172, 190, to British Petroleum, 301
Persia, 190-1; assertion of indepen British Protected States, 78; forces in,
dence, 182-4,194; population census ‘97, 117; withdrawal of forces, 7;
1965, 195; Turkish interest in, 219; position before British courts, 145-8,
Zubarah dispute, 247-9; offshore before foreign courts, 148-9
areas and boundary, 262,278,302-3, British protectorates, 41, 80 ff
370-1; concessionary areas, 300; British Protectorates, Protected States
—Treaties: and Protected Persons Order in
Draft Treaty of Friendship (Britain) Council 1949, 82, 122-3
1816,31 Brown, D. J. L., 88
Treaty of Peace 1820, 31, 194 Brown, E. H., 297
Agreement concerning suppression Bruce, Captain William, 31, 168, 186 f;
of slave trade 1856, 31 Bruce Agreement, 186-7
Friendly Convention 1861, 4, 31 ff Bullard, Sir Reader, 203 ff
Agreements with Britain 1880 and Buraimi: sovereignty dispute, 196-238;
1892, 34-5, 74, 365-6 boundary lines (map), 197; oasis and
Subsidiary agreements with Britain villages, 200 f, 202 f, 208; Arbitra
1898-1914, 35 tion Agreement on boundaries 1954,
Offshore Boundary Agreement with 203 f, 208; occupied by Trucial
Saudi Arabia 1958,104-6,306-11, Oman Levies (Scouts), 206,218,238;
371-4 Wahhabi control, 208, 220-1; Saudi
Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco), tax collection, 201,207, 217-18,226;
300, 308 Omani occupation, 212; ‘annexa
Bani ’Utbah settlement at Qatar, 3, 36 tion’ by Abu Dhabi, 213, 222; con
Bani Yas tribe, 201, 208, 215, 261 trol by Muscat, 214—15, by Abu
Bani Yas island, 306 Dhabi, 215-17, by Saudi Arabia,
Basrah, Wilayat of, 252, 254 f 217-18; historical title to, 220-6
Baty, T., 61 Bushire Residency, 5, 9
Belgium, 183
Belgrave, Sir Charles, 12n, 249 cable landing rights, Qatar, 38
Benenson, P., 246 Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 94
Blue line (Saudi Arabian boundary), Canning, Lord, 49
199,201,207, 219 f, 227, 228n, 230n, Cavar6, L., 64
232, 237 Chamberlain, Sir Austen, 7In, 176,
Borchard, E. M., 136 179 f, 187, 190 f
boundaries, land: controversies, 216— Clarendon, Lord, 174 f, 186 ff
277; eastern Saudi Arabia, 196 ff, Clarendon Note, 176, 187 f
207, 219; Iraq-Kuwait, 256 f, 261; coalfield in Oman, 48, 69, 240
interim settlement (‘neutral zone’), Codrai, R. A., 215
264-6; neutral zone partition, 274 ‘colonial clause’, 106-7
boundaries, submarine, 274, 278-311 colonial protectorates, 80
Brierly, J., 86, 184 Compagnie fran$aise de Pctroles, 301
Britain: influence in Arabian Gulf, 5-6, concession agreements in disputed
9; courts in Gulf States, 14—15, 17, boundary areas, 290-1, 300-2
19; international representation of condominium arrangement, Kuwait-
Trucial Shaikhdoms, 30, 74, of Saudi Arabia, 266, 272, 275