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MAKING YEMEN INDIAN: REWRITING THE BOUNDARIES OF IMPERIAL ARABIA
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This article argues that the Aden Protectorate constituted one of the westernmost parts of India in terms of its political–legal identity and its place in the cultural project of imperial India. Although the port of Aden was governed as part of the Bombay Presidency until 1937, the tribes of the Aden Protectorate were treated as independent native states similar to the princely states of India. Using the sultanate of Lahj as a case study, the article shows the extent to which the colonial state used the Indian model to elaborate a history of the sultanate as an independent political entity, a status that was then institutionalized in historical texts, ethnographic knowledge, and state rituals. The article concludes with an analysis of the protectorate's participation in the 1903 Coronation Durbar in Delhi as a means of demonstrating its place in the British imagination of a socially and politically fragmented India that extended beyond geographical South Asia.
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- Authors
- Willis, J. M.
- Corresponding author
- Willis, John M.
- Venue
- International Journal of Middle East Studies
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2009-02
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 38a-38a
- ISSN
- 0020-7438 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-6380
- OpenAlex
- W4242374990
- Semantic Scholar
- 72384df7ec80fe2ebc584ee4e6aa1a3acef6844b
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 0.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal Middle East Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Cultural Studies and Colonialism
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › African history and culture studies
- Keywords
- Aden Protectorate, British colonial rule, princely states, colonial historiography, ethnography, state rituals, Bombay Presidency, tribal states, colonial India, imperial identity, Arabian Peninsula
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