Mysore at War: The Military Structure during the Reigns of Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments VII
4. List of Illustrations IX
5. Abbreviations XI
6. Introduction: A Great War in South India and its German Sources 1
7. Mysore at War: The Military Structure during the Reigns of Haidar ‘Ali and Tipu Sultan 17
8. A Crisis Disremembered: Towards a Social History of War in Eighteenth-Century South India 55
9. Carl August Schlegel’s Military Geography of the Carnatic 79
10. Versuch einer militärischen Geographie des Carnatiks in seinem gegenwärtigen Zustande 93
11. Essay of a Military Geography of the Carnatic in its Present State 153
12. Two Hanoverian Lieutenants in the Tamil Plains: The Letters of Ferdinand Breymann and the Diary of Carl de Roques 201
13. Ausgewählte Briefe an seine Verlobte 223
14. Ein Tagebuch aus Südindien: Februar 1782–Juni 1784 253
15. The Outsider’s Perspective on Colonial Conflict: A Hanoverian Officer’s Narrative of the Second Anglo-Mysore War, 1783–1784 319
16. Brief vom 29. März 1784 345
17. “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 357
18. Krieg und Elend in Südindien: aus Briefen und Berichten der Dänisch- Halleschen Missionare 369
19. Glossary 453
20. Bibliography 467
21. List of Contributors 487
22. Index 489