Trucial States to crucial states: Why Modi has smelt great opportunity in UAE and Gulf countries

SOURCE: ECONOMIC TIMES In the days of the British Raj, the Arab tribal principalities that now comprise the United Arab Emirates were known as the Trucial States. The word “trucial” is a rarely-used adjective derived from “truce”. Its use reflected the unique arrangement that British India had with the Persian Gulf sheikhdoms. There was no direct […]

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