ISBN:
9780253218735
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9780253348104
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0253348102
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025321873X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 344 p)
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maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Slavery and South Asian History
DDC:
306.3/620954
Keywords:
Slavery History
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Slaves History
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Slaves History
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Slavery History
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Slavery ; India ; History
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Slavery ; South Asia ; History
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Slaves ; India ; History
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Slaves ; South Asia ; History
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -- Edward A. Alpers, UCLADespite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and even the category of
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; CONTENTS; List of Maps; Preface and Acknowledgments; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction; 1.Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and theHistoriography of South Asia; 2.War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study ofPalace Women in the Chola Empire; 3. Turkish Slaves on Islam's Indian Frontier; 4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate:Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries; 5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650; 6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slavesin Rajput Polity, 1500-1850
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700-18008. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600-1857; 9. Bharattee's Death: Domestic Slave-Womenin Nineteenth-Century Madras; 10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857-1860; 11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in Islam; 12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of Silence; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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