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The sovereign and the pirate : ordering maritime subjects in India's western littoral / Lakshmi Subramanian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Subramanian, Lakshmi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pirates--India--History.
- Pirates.
- Shipping--Security measures--India.
- Shipping.
- Piracy--India--Prevention.
- Piracy.
- Shipping--Security measures.
- History.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 258 pages : illustrations (black and white), 1 folded map (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 1 The Setting: Littoral Society in Transition 25
- 2 The Company at Sea: Petitions, Predation, and Reprisals, 1790-1805 61
- 3 Towards an Ethnography of Piracy: Musings of a Resident 103
- 4 Docile Subjects and Subaltern Resistance: Piracy in the Age of Maritime Radicalism 151
- 5 Piracy in Retrospect: The Challenges of a Fragmented Archive 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199467044
- 0199467048
- OCLC:
- 954115553
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