9780253348104-0253348102-Slavery and South Asian History

Slavery and South Asian History

ISBN-13: 9780253348104
ISBN-10: 0253348102
Author: Richard M. Eaton, Indrani Chatterjee
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780253348104
ISBN-10: 0253348102
Author: Richard M. Eaton, Indrani Chatterjee
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Hardcover 368 pages

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Slavery and South Asian History (ISBN-13: 9780253348104 and ISBN-10: 0253348102), written by authors Richard M. Eaton, Indrani Chatterjee, was published by Indiana University Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Slavery and South Asian History (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." —Edward A. Alpers, UCLA

Despite 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 slavery itself. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become slaves at birth or through capture, sale by relatives, indenture, or as a result of accusations of criminality or inappropriate sexual behavior. For centuries, trade in slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The contributors to this collection of original essays describe a wide range of sites and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of individual slaves wherever possible.

Contributors are Daud Ali, Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. Eaton, Michael H. Fisher, Sumit Guha, Peter Jackson, Sunil Kumar, Avril A. Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy Walker.

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