Description
Book SynopsisDespite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is overlooked in the region's historiography. This work contributes to a rethinking of slavery in world history. It describes a range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves.
Trade Review"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." --Edward A. Alpers, UCLA
Table of ContentsList of Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction Richard M. Eaton
1. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South Asia Indrani Chatterjee
2. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire Daud Ali
3. Turkish Slaves on Islam's Indian Frontier Peter Jackson
4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Sunil Kumar
5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450–1650 Richard M. Eaton
6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500–1850 Ramya Sreenivasan
7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700–1800 Sumit Guha
8. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600–1857 Michael H. Fisher
9. Bharattee's Death: Domestic Slave-Women in Nineteenth-Century Madras Sylvia Vatuk
10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857–1860 Timothy Walker
11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in Islam Avril A. Powell
12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of Silence Indrani Chatterjee
List of Contributors
Index
