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Informationen zum Autor Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Klappentext Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy Walker. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
