A Great War in South India : German Accounts of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, 1766-1799 / Ravi Ahuja, Martin Christof-Füchsle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahuja, Ravi, Editor.

Christof-Füchsle, Martin, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--Mysore Wars, 1766-1799.

India.

Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, 1753-1799.

Tipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 507 pages)

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In dieser Edition werden Dokumente zu den Kriegen zwischen der britischen Kolonialmacht und der südindischen Regionalmacht Mysore zwischen 1766 und 1799 aufgearbeitet. Reichhaltige deutschsprachige Dokumente zu einem Krieg, der für die Region ähnlich verheerend war wie der Dreißigjährige Krieg für Deutschland, werden transkribiert und erstmals erschlossen.

This book examines documents from the wars between the British colonial power and the South Indian regional power Mysore between 1766 and 1799. It transcribes and makes available for the first time the rich German documentation of a war that was as destructive as the Thirty Years War in Germany.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction: A Great War in South India and its German Sources

Mysore at War: The Military Structure during the Reigns of Haidar 'Ali and Tipu Sultan

A Crisis Disremembered: Towards a Social History of War in Eighteenth-Century South India

Carl August Schlegel's Military Geography of the Carnatic

Versuch einer militärischen Geographie des Carnatiks in seinem gegenwärtigen Zustande

Essay of a Military Geography of the Carnatic in its Present State

Two Hanoverian Lieutenants in the Tamil Plains: The Letters of Ferdinand Breymann and the Diary of Carl de Roques

Ausgewählte Briefe an seine Verlobte

Ein Tagebuch aus Südindien: Februar 1782-Juni 1784

The Outsider's Perspective on Colonial Conflict: A Hanoverian Officer's Narrative of the Second Anglo-Mysore War, 1783-1784

Brief vom 29. März 1784

"But now they sit, from the race of the Bramans to the Pareier, compliantly on the graves": Social History in the Letters of the Danish-Halle Missionaries

Krieg und Elend in Südindien: aus Briefen und Berichten der Dänisch- Halleschen Missionare

Glossary

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110640809

3110640805

9783110644647

3110644649

OCLC:

1135578849