Gender, Slavery and law in colonial India

By:

Chatterjee Indrani

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Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 1999Description: 286p xiISBN:

9780195641813

Subject(s):

1. Labour Economics - Slavery Systems - India - History

DDC classification:

331.173400 CHA-2

Contents:

Summary: This volume shows that slaves acquired by some ruling households were incorporated into patterns of kinship. Colonial abolitionist measures did not even try to manumit these slaves; they restructured ideologies of marriage and succession instead and eroded the status of slave-descended members over time.

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This volume shows that slaves acquired by some ruling households were incorporated into patterns of kinship. Colonial abolitionist measures did not even try to manumit these slaves; they restructured ideologies of marriage and succession instead and eroded the status of slave-descended members over time.

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