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020 _a9780195641813
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082 _a331.173400
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100 _aChatterjee Indrani
245 _aGender, Slavery and law in colonial India
260 _aNew Delhi
_bOxford University Press
_c1999
300 _a286p
_cxi
365 _bRs.525
505 _aSummary: 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.
650 _a1. Labour Economics - Slavery Systems - India - History
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