Slavery and South Asian History

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CONTENTS List of Maps ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Note on Translation and Transliteration xv Introduction RICHARD M. EATON 1 1. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South Asia INDRANI CHATTERJEE 17 2. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire DAUD ALI 44 3. Turkish Slaves on Islam’s Indian Frontier PETER JACKSON 63 4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries SUNIL KUMAR 83 5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450–1650 RICHARD M. EATON 115 6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500–1850 RAMYA SREENIVASAN 136 7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700–1800 SUMIT GUHA 162 8. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600–1857 MICHAEL H. FISHER 187 9. Bharattee’s Death: Domestic Slave-Women in Nineteenth-Century Madras SYLVIA VATUK 210 10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857–1860 TIMOTHY WALKER 234 11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in Islam AVRIL A. POWELL 262 12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of Silence INDRANI CHATTERJEE 287 List of Contributors 317 Index 319 ...