| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 344 pages) : maps |
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Renewed and connected histories : slavery and the historiography of South Asia / Indrani Chatterjee -- War, servitude, and the Imperial household : a study of palace women in the Chola Empire / Daud Ali -- Turkish slaves on Islam's Indian frontier / Peter Jackson -- Service, status, and military slavery in the Delhi Sultanate : thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar -- The rise and fall of military slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650 / Richard M. Eaton -- Drudges, dancing girls, concubines : female slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500-1850 / Ramya Sreenivasan -- Slavery, society, and the State in Western India, 1700-1800 / Sumit Guha -- Bound for Britain : changing conditions of servitude, 1600-1857 / Michael H. Fisher -- Bharattee's death : domestic slave-women in nineteenth-century Madras / Sylvia Vatuk -- Slaves or soldiers? African conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857-1860 / Timothy Walker -- Indian Muslim modernists and the issue of slavery in Islam / Avril A. Powell -- Slavery, semantics, and the sound of silence / Indrani Chatterjee |
| Summary |
[Original essays explore the reality of slavery in the South Asian past] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- India -- History
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Slavery -- India -- History
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Enslaved persons -- South Asia -- History
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Slavery -- South Asia -- History
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Slavery
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Enslaved persons
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Sklaverei
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15.75 history of Asia.
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Slavery.
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India
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South Asia
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Südasien
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Indien
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South Asia.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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History (form)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chatterjee, Indrani.
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Eaton, Richard Maxwell.
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| LC no. |
2006008098 |
| ISBN |
9780253116710 |
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0253116716 |
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1282078224 |
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9781282078222 |
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9786612078224 |
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6612078227 |
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