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A Great War in South India : German Accounts of the Anglo-Mysore Wars, 1766-1799 / ed. by Ravi Ahuja, Martin Christof-Füchsle.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XI, 507 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110640540
  • 9783110640809
  • 9783110644647
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.031 23
LOC classification:
  • DS474.1 .G74 2020
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Great War in South India and its German Sources -- Mysore at War: The Military Structure during the Reigns of Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan -- A Crisis Disremembered: Towards a Social History of War in Eighteenth-Century South India -- Carl August Schlegel’s Military Geography of the Carnatic -- Versuch einer militärischen Geographie des Carnatiks in seinem gegenwärtigen Zustande -- Essay of a Military Geography of the Carnatic in its Present State -- Two Hanoverian Lieutenants in the Tamil Plains: The Letters of Ferdinand Breymann and the Diary of Carl de Roques -- Ausgewählte Briefe an seine Verlobte -- Ein Tagebuch aus Südindien: Februar 1782–Juni 1784 -- The Outsider’s Perspective on Colonial Conflict: A Hanoverian Officer’s Narrative of the Second Anglo-Mysore War, 1783–1784 -- Brief vom 29. März 1784 -- “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 -- Krieg und Elend in Südindien: aus Briefen und Berichten der Dänisch- Halleschen Missionare -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
Summary: In dieser Edition werden Dokumente zu den Kriegen zwischen der britischen Kolonialmacht und der südindischen Regionalmacht Mysore zwischen 1766 und 1799 aufgearbeitet. Reichhaltige deutschsprachige Dokumente zu einem Krieg, der für die Region ähnlich verheerend war wie der Dreißigjährige Krieg für Deutschland, werden transkribiert und erstmals erschlossen.Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Great War in South India and its German Sources -- Mysore at War: The Military Structure during the Reigns of Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan -- A Crisis Disremembered: Towards a Social History of War in Eighteenth-Century South India -- Carl August Schlegel’s Military Geography of the Carnatic -- Versuch einer militärischen Geographie des Carnatiks in seinem gegenwärtigen Zustande -- Essay of a Military Geography of the Carnatic in its Present State -- Two Hanoverian Lieutenants in the Tamil Plains: The Letters of Ferdinand Breymann and the Diary of Carl de Roques -- Ausgewählte Briefe an seine Verlobte -- Ein Tagebuch aus Südindien: Februar 1782–Juni 1784 -- The Outsider’s Perspective on Colonial Conflict: A Hanoverian Officer’s Narrative of the Second Anglo-Mysore War, 1783–1784 -- Brief vom 29. März 1784 -- “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 -- Krieg und Elend in Südindien: aus Briefen und Berichten der Dänisch- Halleschen Missionare -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

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In dieser Edition werden Dokumente zu den Kriegen zwischen der britischen Kolonialmacht und der südindischen Regionalmacht Mysore zwischen 1766 und 1799 aufgearbeitet. Reichhaltige deutschsprachige Dokumente zu einem Krieg, der für die Region ähnlich verheerend war wie der Dreißigjährige Krieg für Deutschland, werden transkribiert und erstmals erschlossen.

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)