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SUMMARY:Maratha Naval Challenges to European Proto-Empire in the Early Eig
 hteenth Century - Derek L. Elliott (Peterhouse)
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CONTACT:Ilya Berkovich
DESCRIPTION:Subscribers to the military revolution thesis believe Europe
 ’s preeminence was a result of technological and bureaucratic precocious
 ness in military affairs that led to the conquest of the globe and the col
 onial project. However\, technological superiority did not always signify 
 the foregone conclusion of European dominance over the polities of India. 
 By adopting guerrilla-style naval tactics and exploiting a comparative adv
 antage in vessels that were light and fast the Marathas became the scourge
  of the English East India Company and other European powers. Importantly\
 , Maratha naval prowess challenges the notion of technological superiority
  as a primary explanatory factor in pre-colonial India and throws into fur
 ther question Eurocentric frameworks of how conquests\noccurred in the ear
 ly-modern period.
LOCATION:Seminar Room N7\, Pembroke College
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