![]() ![]() ![]() Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries SUNIL KUMAR 83 5. Turkish Slaves on Islam’s Indian Frontier PETER JACKSON 63 4. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire DAUD ALI 44 3. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South Asia INDRANI CHATTERJEE 17 2. ![]() To all present and future historians of slaveryĬONTENTS List of Maps ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Note on Translation and Transliteration xvġ. Includes bibliographical references and index. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Slavery and South Asian history / edited by Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA Telephone orders 80 Fax orders 81 Orders by email © 2006 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington & Indianapolis South Asian History Edited by Indrani Chatterjee and Richard M. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles It enriches our knowledge of slavery in South Asia by providing a number of illuminating case studies and, in the process, makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent.” -Edward A. “Indrani Chatterjee and Richard Eaton have produced an important edited volume that will be welcomed by students of comparative slavery. 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. For centuries, trade in slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. 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. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and of the category of slavery itself. University Press Bloomington & Indianapolisĭespite 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. Cover illustration: Portrait of Malik Ambar by Hashim, c. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy Walker. Fisher, Sumit Guha, Peter Jackson, Sunil Kumar, Avril A. Contributors are Daud Ali, Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. ![]()
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