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It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.

From Aden to Kuwait, a crescent of Arabian protectorates was governed from Delhi, overseen by the Indian Political Service, policed by Indian troops, and answerable to the Viceroy of India.

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