num_pages: 340
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Sovereign and the Pirate: Ordering Maritime Subjects in India’s Western Littoral
publisher: Oxford University Press