The Sovereign and the Pirate
Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral
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ISBN:
9780199467044
Publication date:
27/06/2016
Hardback
276 pages
216x140mm
Price: 850.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199467044
Publication date:
27/06/2016
Hardback
276 pages
Lakshmi Subramanian
Focuses on one of the less researched aspects of maritime history in the Indian Ocean-piracy,The issue of piracy has been in discussion in recent times and this book grounds its various aspects in their appropriate historical context,Links piracy to colonial rule, which so far has mostly been seen in terms of territorial control and administration over land
Rights: World Rights
Lakshmi Subramanian
Description
The book focuses on the phenomenon of predation during the closing decades of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century in Indias western littoral. It attempts a material history of piracy, locating its antecedents, its social context, and its ramifications at a crucial time of political transition. Alongside, it revisits the idea of piracy as a category that was largely constituted by regimes of power and regulation in the high seas and in littoral waters. In the case of India and the Indian Ocean, the pirate was a particularly maligned figure thanks to the discourse put forward by the English East Company. The book unravels the making of such a discourse, while remaining attentive to fissures and tensions within the discourse.
About the Author
Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor of History at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
Lakshmi Subramanian
Table of contents
Preface
Note on spellings and archival citations
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Setting: Littoral Society in Transition
Chapter 2 The Company at Sea: Petitions, Predation, and Reprisals 17901805
Chapter 3 Towards an Ethnography of Piracy: Musings of a Resident
Chapter 4 Docile Subjects and Subaltern Resistance: Piracy in the Age of Maritime Radicalism
Chapter 5 Piracy in Retrospect: The Challenges of a Fragmented Archive
Epilogue: Perspectives from the Littoral
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Lakshmi Subramanian
Review
"Subramanian's study breaks new ground in piracy and Indian Ocean studies ... her thoughtful discussion of the issues that can sur-round the use of colonial archives to reconstruct complex and often problematic phenomena should become required reading for anyone setting out to reconstruct the history of the colonial experience in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific worlds." - Richard B. Allen, The International Journal of Maritime History ,"an insightful and valuable contribution to the field of pirate studies ... [Subramanian] widens the possibilities of the field and lights the way for future studies of piracy." - Timothy Riding, History
Lakshmi Subramanian
Description
The book focuses on the phenomenon of predation during the closing decades of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century in Indias western littoral. It attempts a material history of piracy, locating its antecedents, its social context, and its ramifications at a crucial time of political transition. Alongside, it revisits the idea of piracy as a category that was largely constituted by regimes of power and regulation in the high seas and in littoral waters. In the case of India and the Indian Ocean, the pirate was a particularly maligned figure thanks to the discourse put forward by the English East Company. The book unravels the making of such a discourse, while remaining attentive to fissures and tensions within the discourse.
About the Author
Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor of History at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
Table of contents
Preface
Note on spellings and archival citations
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Setting: Littoral Society in Transition
Chapter 2 The Company at Sea: Petitions, Predation, and Reprisals 17901805
Chapter 3 Towards an Ethnography of Piracy: Musings of a Resident
Chapter 4 Docile Subjects and Subaltern Resistance: Piracy in the Age of Maritime Radicalism
Chapter 5 Piracy in Retrospect: The Challenges of a Fragmented Archive
Epilogue: Perspectives from the Littoral
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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