Region
Konkan Coast
1 pirate in the codex documented as operating here.
The Konkan coast — the western Indian shoreline from modern Mumbai south to Goa — was the operational territory of the Maratha admiral Kanhoji Angre and his descendants from approximately 1698 until the British conquest of the region in 1818. Angre operated a fleet of armed galleots and grabs from a string of coastal fortifications (Vijaydurg, Suvarnadurg, Khanderi, Colaba, and others), levied formal protection passes (dastaks) on European merchant shipping, and repulsed repeated punitive expeditions by the East India Company, the Portuguese, and the Dutch. European sources of the period treat the operation as piracy; Indian sources treat it as the legitimate naval expression of Maratha sovereignty.
