| Naval Resistance to Britain's Growing Power in India, 1660-1800: The Saffron Banner and the Tiger of Mysore UK Edition Contributor(s): Macdougall, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843839482 ISBN-13: 9781843839484 Publisher: Boydell Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - Technology & Engineering | Military Science - History | Military - Naval |
| Dewey: 359 |
| LCCN: 2014469950 |
| Series: Worlds of the East India Company |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.08 lbs) 222 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Most books on the colonisation of India view the subject in Eurocentric imperial terms, focusing on the ways in which European powers competed with each other on land and at sea and defeated Indian states on land, and viewing Indian states as having little interest in naval matters. This book, in contrast, reveals that there was substantial naval activity on the part of some Indian states and that this activity represented a serious threat to Britain's naval power. Considering the subject from an Indian point of view, the book discusses the naval activities of the Mahratta Confederacy and later those of Mysore under its energetic rulers Haidar Ali and his successor Tipu Sultan. Itshows how these states chose deliberately to develop a naval strategy, seeing this as the most effective way of expelling the British from India; how their strategies learned from European maritime technology, successfully blending this with Indian technology; how their opposition to British naval power was at its most effective when they allied themselves with the other European naval powers in the region - France, Portugal and the Netherlands, whose maritime activities in the region are fully outlined and assessed; and how ultimately the Indian states' naval strategies failed. Philip MacDougall, a former lecturer in economic history at the University of Kent, is a founder member of the Navy Dockyards Society, editor of the Society's Transactions, and the author or editor of seven books in maritime history, including The Naval Mutinies of 1797 (The Boydell Press, 2011). |
Contributor Bio(s): Macdougall, Philip: - A graduate of the University of Lancaster and former lecturer at the University of Kent, Philip MacDougall has written extensively on the theme of nations preparing for war, delving into inter-war aviation records, looking at various air wars and how different nations interpreted the tactical lessons resulting from those conflicts. MacDougall has edited Kent Airfields in the Battle of Britain (Meresborough Books) and has written many articles and books on military aviation as well as naval support facilities. |
