This work focuses on the phenomenon of predation during the closing decades of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th 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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