What is it about?
During the nineteenth century external powers and trade, once established from the Gulf to the Indian Ocean wider scenarios and different economies, contributed to modify the powers within regional and international leaderships that were inevitably subjected to future substantial changes of these seaboard regions. Probably, Zanzibar was not that rich and the Omani Sultans did not benefit that much from the trade.
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Why is it important?
Starting from 1842 onwards, the presence of Omanis political leaders on the Eastern African coasts did lead to numerous intersections between regional and international interests where Britain often played a role of turning realities into new political scenarios.
Perspectives
It was a fight for power as well as a series of territorial and political claims of control and dominance upon a large, as well as indefinable, area such as the Indian Ocean where regional and international trades did follow ancient distributions of powers, of forces, and of ancient routes through land as well as through sea.
Prof. Ph.D. Beatrice Nicolini
Catholic University, Milan, Italy
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This page is a summary of: The Myth of the Sultans in the Western Indian Ocean during the Nineteenth Century: A New Hypothesis, African and Asian Studies, January 2009, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/156921009x458109.
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