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The Sovereign and the Pirate : Ordering Maritime Subjects in India's Western Littoral / Lakshmi Subramanian.

By: Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 258 pages : illustrations (black and white), 1 folded map (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199467044 (hardback)
  • 0199467048 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.164095 SUB 23
LOC classification:
  • KZ7212 .S83 2016
Contents:
Table of contents Preface Note on Spelling and Archival Citations Introduction Chapter One: The Setting: Littoral Society in Transition Chapter Two: The Company at Sea: Petitions, Predations, and Reprisals, 1790–1805 Chapter Three: Towards an Ethnography of Piracy: Musings of a Resident Chapter Four: Docile Subjects and Subaltern Resistance: Piracy in the Age of Maritime Radicalism Chapter Five: Piracy in Retrospect: The Challenges of a Fragmented Archive Epilogue: Perspectives from the Littoral Appendix: A Letter from Khatri Sundarji Savji of Shree Bet Sankhodhar to the Governor of Bombay Bibliography Index About the Author
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BOOKs NLS General Stacks 364.164095 SUB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) HB Available 36181

Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-249) and index.

Table of contents
Preface
Note on Spelling and Archival Citations
Introduction
Chapter One: The Setting: Littoral Society in Transition
Chapter Two: The Company at Sea: Petitions, Predations, and Reprisals, 1790–1805
Chapter Three: Towards an Ethnography of Piracy: Musings of a Resident
Chapter Four: Docile Subjects and Subaltern Resistance: Piracy in the Age of Maritime Radicalism
Chapter Five: Piracy in Retrospect: The Challenges of a Fragmented Archive
Epilogue: Perspectives from the Littoral
Appendix: A Letter from Khatri Sundarji Savji of Shree Bet Sankhodhar to the Governor of Bombay
Bibliography
Index
About the Author