The sovereign and the pirate : ordering maritime subjects in India's western littoral
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The sovereign and the pirate : ordering maritime subjects in India's western littoral
Oxford University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-249) and index
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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.
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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