Women in Wars The Sea Queen's Defiance: Rani Abbakka Chowta and the Asymmetric Naval War Against the Portuguese Empire (1525-1570), (Paperback)

<p>Long before European colonial power consolidated itself in Asia, one coastal queen forced a maritime empire into retreat.</p><p>Ruling the small but strategically vital port of Ullal on India's western coast, <b>Rani Abbakka Chowta</b> confronted the Portuguese Estado da Índia at the height of its naval dominance. For more than four decades, she resisted monopolization of the Indian Ocean trade through a sophisticated campaign of guerrilla naval warfare, economic defiance, and multi-religious alliance-building.</p><p>In <i>The Sea Queen's Defiance</i>, historian <b>Alice Cavendish-Spencer</b> presents the first fully strategic analysis of Abbakka's resistance, examining: </p><ul><li><p>The Portuguese cartaz system as economic warfare</p></li><li><p>Ullal's estuarine geography as a defensive weapon</p></li><li><p>Fire-arrow technology and "mosquito fleet" tactics</p></li><li><p>Matrilineal rule under the Aliyasantana system</p></li><li><p>Coalition warfare during the War of the League of the Indies</p></li><li><p>The role of betrayal and internal politics in imperial conquest</p></li></ul><p>This is not a romantic legend, but a rigorously grounded study of how indigenous naval power repeatedly defeated a global empire in littoral warfare.</p>

• Women in Wars The Sea Queen's Defiance: Rani Abbakka Chowta and the Asymmetric Naval War Against the Portuguese Empire (1525-1570), (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798241764232
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-12-29
• Page Count: 92