Slavery & South Asian history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Eaton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451732103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-282-07822-4; 0-253-11671-6; 9786612078224
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 pages) : maps
• Altri autori (Persone): ChatterjeeIndrani; EatonRichard Maxwell
• Disciplina: 306.3/620954
• Soggetti: Slaves - India - History; Slavery - India - History; Slaves - South Asia - History; Slavery - South Asia - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: ""[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