Indian banyan trade in Oman - since the establishment of the Albu Said state in 1744

Throughout its history, Oman has represented a living model of human unity. Its ports and markets attracted people from different nations and peoples, making it a crossroads of cultural communication in which all the elements of what is currently called globalization, both economic and cultural, were present thousands of years before the term appeared. The Omani markets opened up commercial opportunities to all its investors of all ages. Their races and religions, and among them came the Indian merchants (Banyan), whose commercial activity has been prominent in the Omani markets since ancient times. Oman gained the first place in its uniqueness in cultural and religious pluralism, avoiding the tragedies of discrimination, racism, and exclusion that minorities continue to suffer in many countries of the world to this day.