"Naval Resistance to Britain's Growing Power in India,..." Topic

… 1660-1800: The Saffron Banner and the Tiger of Mysore (Worlds of the East India Company).

"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. It shows 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 "

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Anyone who has read this book?
If the answer is yes, comments plese?

Amicalement
Armand

Great find I will have to buy.

Not at that price. (Too bad though…).

You could always try this 2 volume work-

History of the Indian navy. (1613-1863) It primarily deals with the history of the Honourable East India Company but of course deals with all its opponents.

Available at archive.org for free.

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regards,
Paul

emperorslibrary.com

Very interesting and something I imagine not many of us are aware of. Well done Armand. Shame about the price though. I for one have spent far too much on books, especially 1815 titles.

Glad you like it my friends (smile)

Thanks Paul!

Amicalement
Armand