A Great War in South India

A Great War in South India

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

Edited by: Ravi Ahuja and Martin Christof-Füchsle

De Gruyter Oldenbourg | 2020

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

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	I
Contents Free access PDF PDF	V
Acknowledgments Free access PDF PDF	VII
List of Illustrations Free access PDF PDF	IX
Abbreviations Free access PDF PDF	XI
Introduction: A Great War in South India and its German Sources Ravi Ahuja and Martin Christof-Füchsle Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Mysore at War: The Military Structure during the Reigns of Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan Kaveh Yazdani Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	17
A Crisis Disremembered: Towards a Social History of War in Eighteenth-Century South India Ravi Ahuja Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	55
Carl August Schlegel’s Military Geography of the Carnatic Dietmar Rothermund Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	79
Versuch einer militärischen Geographie des Carnatiks in seinem gegenwärtigen Zustande Carl August Schlegel Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	93
Essay of a Military Geography of the Carnatic in its Present State Carl August Schlegel Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	153
Two Hanoverian Lieutenants in the Tamil Plains: The Letters of Ferdinand Breymann and the Diary of Carl de Roques Martin Christof-Füchsle Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	201
Ausgewählte Briefe an seine Verlobte Ferdinand Breymann Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	223
Ein Tagebuch aus Südindien: Februar 1782–Juni 1784 Carl de Roques Access restricted Content is available PDF 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 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	319
Brief vom 29. März 1784 Peter Joseph du Plat Access restricted Content is available PDF 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 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	357
Krieg und Elend in Südindien: aus Briefen und Berichten der Dänisch- Halleschen Missionare Christian Friedrich Schwartz Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	369
Glossary Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	453
Bibliography Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	467
List of Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	487
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	489

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A Great War in South India

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

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