Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India
Author:   Indrani Chatterjee
Publisher:   OUP India
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9780195641813


Pages:   293
Publication Date:   01 December 1998
Format:   Hardback
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Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India


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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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Author:   Indrani Chatterjee
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.561kg
ISBN:  

9780195641813


ISBN 10:   0195641817
Pages:   293
Publication Date:   01 December 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Chatterjee's study...offers new understanding of the place of the eunuch and the harem in the milieu of governance....[She] presents complex themes clearly and articulately. Her research in company and Indian records is deep and broad....her work is erudite and her arguments highly plausible. --History<br>


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