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Renewed and connected histories : slavery and the historiography of South Asia / Indrani Chatterjee -- War, servitude, and the Imperial household : a study of palace women in the Chola Empire / Daud Ali -- Turkish slaves on Islam's Indian frontier / Peter Jackson -- Service, status, and military slavery in the Delhi Sultanate : thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Sunil Kumar -- The rise and fall of military slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650 / Richard M. Eaton -- Drudges, dancing girls, concubines : female slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500-1850 / Ramya Sreenivasan -- Slavery, society, and the State in Western India, 1700-1800 / Sumit Guha -- Bound for Britain : changing conditions of servitude, 1600-1857 / Michael H. Fisher -- Bharattee's death : domestic slave-women in nineteenth-century Madras / Sylvia Vatuk -- Slaves or soldiers? African conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857-1860 / Timothy Walker -- Indian Muslim modernists and the issue of slavery in Islam / Avril A. Powell -- Slavery, semantics, and the sound of silence / Indrani Chatterjee. |
