Format:
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
ISBN:
9780253218735
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9780253348104
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0253348102
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025321873X
Content:
"[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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253348104
Additional Edition:
Print version Slavery and South Asian History
Language:
English
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