The idea of violence at sea expands upon the constructs of political economy to political ecology as much as it relates to social anthropology, geography, and history. The study of how and why operational forces of enterprise and power relations drove individual or social groups to predation in a progressively interwoven sea creates the intrigue. What is more intriguing to check is how pirates and their politico-economic activities impacted the inner wheels of evolutionary capitalist system and power dynamics. What was the mechanism of such financial operations? Hinging on the interplay between linear and layered power relations, how did pirates integrate or juxtapose with the existing entrepreneurial networks? To see this demonstrated, this talk relooks at the Arabian Sea and re-evaluates British hegemonic interplay around the Gujarat, Bombay, and Canton cotton supply network, reordering overlying linkages between the empire, merchants, and pirates of the Gulf of Kachchh. It shows how the employing of the term “predation” or “marauding” as a genteelism for the legal frame grew into a crucial component of empire’s maritime prowess. The talk pictures the perspective that the British empire’s duel with pirates of the Gulf of Kachchh was also the dynamic phase of the trans-littoral piracy in the Arabian Sea.