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Long before European colonial power consolidated itself in Asia, one coastal queen forced a maritime empire into retreat. Ruling the small but strategically vital port of Ullal on India's western coast, Rani Abbakka Chowta 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. In The Sea Queen's Defiance, historian Alice Cavendish-Spencer presents the first fully strategic analysis of Abbakka's resistance, examining: The Portuguese cartaz system as economic warfare Ullal's estuarine geography as a defensive weapon Fire-arrow technology and ""mosquito fleet"" tactics Matrilineal rule under the Aliyasantana system Coalition warfare during the War of the League of the Indies The role of betrayal and internal politics in imperial conquest This is not a romantic legend, but a rigorously grounded study of how indigenous naval power repeatedly defeated a global empire in littoral warfare.

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