The Sovereign and the Pirate
Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Western Littoral
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9780199467044
Publication date:
28/06/2016
Hardback
340 pages
Price: 850.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199467044
Publication date:
28/06/2016
Hardback
340 pages
Lakshmi Subramanian
The book focuses on the phenomenon of predation during the closing decades of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century in India’s 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. It considers the possibility of studying piracy through the lens of law and resistance.
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Lakshmi Subramanian
Description
Around the turn of the nineteenth century, the northwestern littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch, and Sind—was battered by piratical raids. These attacks disrupted coastal trade and embarrassed the English East India Company by defying the very boundaries of law and sovereignty that the Company was trying to impose. Who were these pirates whom the Company described as small-time crooks habituated to a life of raiding and thieving? How did they perceive themselves? What did they mean when they insisted that theft was their livelihood and that it enjoyed the sanction of God?
Exploring the phenomenon and politics of predation in the region, Lakshmi Subramanian teases out a material history of piracy—locating its antecedents, its social context, and its ramifications—during a crucial period of political turbulence marked by global expansion of commercial exchanges headed by the Company. She investigates the fissures within the colonial project of law and anti-piracy regulations and, through the lens of maritime politics, unravels the skeins of a distinct mode of subaltern protest.
About the Author
Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor of History at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata. She was previously Professor of History at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and University of Calcutta, Kolkata.
Lakshmi Subramanian
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
Lakshmi Subramanian
Lakshmi Subramanian
Description
Around the turn of the nineteenth century, the northwestern littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch, and Sind—was battered by piratical raids. These attacks disrupted coastal trade and embarrassed the English East India Company by defying the very boundaries of law and sovereignty that the Company was trying to impose. Who were these pirates whom the Company described as small-time crooks habituated to a life of raiding and thieving? How did they perceive themselves? What did they mean when they insisted that theft was their livelihood and that it enjoyed the sanction of God?
Exploring the phenomenon and politics of predation in the region, Lakshmi Subramanian teases out a material history of piracy—locating its antecedents, its social context, and its ramifications—during a crucial period of political turbulence marked by global expansion of commercial exchanges headed by the Company. She investigates the fissures within the colonial project of law and anti-piracy regulations and, through the lens of maritime politics, unravels the skeins of a distinct mode of subaltern protest.
About the Author
Lakshmi Subramanian is Professor of History at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata. She was previously Professor of History at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and University of Calcutta, Kolkata.
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
