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

by Lakshmi Subramanian

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199467048
• ISBN13: 9780199467044
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.8"