Doha

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Sometimes a local ruler came to regard the entire Indian merchant community in his town as an unwanted commercial rival, so he forced them out, as happened in Doha in the early 1880s and Kuwait in the early 1900s.

Interestingly, Doha was found to be less cosmopolitan than most other Gulf and Omani ports, partly because Indians and other British subjects were effectively excluded until the late 1940s.

Most Khoja Ismailis arrived in Doha in 1964 following disturbances in Masqat jamaat.