Indrani Chatterjee / Richard M. Eaton

Slavery and South Asian History

Herausgeber: Chatterjee, Indrani; Eaton, Richard M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9780253218735
• ISBN-10: 025321873X
• Artikelnr.: 21139021

Autorenporträt

Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Translation and Transliteration
IntroductionRichard M. Eaton
1. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South
AsiaIndrani Chatterjee
2. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in
the Chola EmpireDaud Ali
3. Turkish Slaves on Islam's Indian FrontierPeter Jackson
4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth
and Fourteenth CenturiesSunil Kumar
5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650Richard M.
Eaton
6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity,
1500-1850Ramya Sreenivasan
7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700-1800Sumit Guha
8. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600-1857Michael H.
Fisher
9. Bharattee's Death: Domestic Slave-Women in Nineteenth-Century
MadrasSylvia Vatuk
10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India,
1857-1860Timothy Walker
11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in IslamAvril A.
Powell
12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of SilenceIndrani Chatterjee
List of Contributors
Index