The Sovereign and the Pirate : Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral

Subramanian, Lakshmi

OUP India（2016/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199467044
• DDC分類 364.1640954

Full 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.

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