A Great War in South India

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2020

A Great War in South India

German Accounts of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, 1766-1799

Edited by: Ravi Ahuja and Martin Christof-Füchsle

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110644647

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This book examines documents from the wars between the British colonial power and the South Indian regional power Mysore between 1766 and 1799. It transcribes and makes available for the first time the rich German documentation of a war that was as destructive as the Thirty Years War in Germany.

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Ravi Ahuja, Martin Christof-Füchsle, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction: A Great War in South India and its German Sources Ravi Ahuja and Martin Christof-Füchsle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Mysore at War: The Military Structure during the Reigns of Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan Kaveh Yazdani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
A Crisis Disremembered: Towards a Social History of War in Eighteenth-Century South India Ravi Ahuja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Carl August Schlegel’s Military Geography of the Carnatic Dietmar Rothermund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Versuch einer militärischen Geographie des Carnatiks in seinem gegenwärtigen Zustande Carl August Schlegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Essay of a Military Geography of the Carnatic in its Present State Carl August Schlegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Two Hanoverian Lieutenants in the Tamil Plains: The Letters of Ferdinand Breymann and the Diary of Carl de Roques Martin Christof-Füchsle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Ausgewählte Briefe an seine Verlobte Ferdinand Breymann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Ein Tagebuch aus Südindien: Februar 1782–Juni 1784 Carl de Roques Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
The Outsider’s Perspective on Colonial Conflict: A Hanoverian Officer’s Narrative of the Second Anglo-Mysore War, 1783–1784 Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Brief vom 29. März 1784 Peter Joseph du Plat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
“But now they sit, from the race of the Bramans to the Pareier, compliantly on the graves”: Social History in the Letters of the Danish-Halle Missionaries Karl Müller-Bahlke and Naima Tiné Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Krieg und Elend in Südindien: aus Briefen und Berichten der Dänisch- Halleschen Missionare Christian Friedrich Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	453
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
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Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 507
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- Illustrations: 3

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Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110644647

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Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9783110640540

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A Great War in South India

German Accounts of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, 1766-1799