{"product_id":"9780253116710","title":"Slavery and South Asian History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It]\u003cbr\u003e makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent.\" -- Edward\u003cbr\u003e A. Alpers, UCLA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite its pervasive presence in the South Asian\u003cbr\u003e past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because\u003cbr\u003e the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation\u003cbr\u003e slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking\u003cbr\u003e of slavery in world history, and even the category of slavery itself. Most slaves in\u003cbr\u003e South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the\u003cbr\u003e latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become slaves at\u003cbr\u003e birth or through capture, sale by relatives, indenture, or as a result of\u003cbr\u003e accusations of criminality or inappropriate sexual behavior. For centuries, trade in\u003cbr\u003e slaves linked South Asia with Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The\u003cbr\u003e contributors to this collection of original essays describe a wide range of sites\u003cbr\u003e and contexts covering more than a thousand years, foregrounding the life stories of\u003cbr\u003e individual slaves wherever possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors are Daud Ali,\u003cbr\u003e Indrani Chatterjee, Richard M. Eaton, Michael H. Fisher, Sumit Guha, Peter Jackson,\u003cbr\u003e Sunil Kumar, Avril A. Powell, Ramya Sreenivasan, Sylvia Vatuk, and Timothy\u003cbr\u003e Walker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124616544496,"sku":"9780253116710","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253116710","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}