The Sovereign and the Pirate

Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-09-22
Mått148 x 223 x 24 mm
Vikt462 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagOUP India
ISBN9780199467044

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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

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.

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