Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843
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xx, 361 p. : 25 cm
Explores the political, economic, and ideological agendas that at the height of the British abolition and missionary movements allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart
Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-351) and index
Other slaveries. Introduction ; 'To call a slave a slave' : recovering Indian slavery -- European slaveries. Introduction : slavery and colonial expansion in India ; 'A shameful and ruinous trade' : European slave-trafficking and the East India Company ; Bengalis, caffrees and Malays : European slave-holding and early colonial society -- Indian slaveries. Introduction : locating Indian slaveries ; 'This household servitude' : domestic slavery and immoral commerce ; 'Open and professed stealers of children' : slave-trafficking and the boundaries of the colonial state ; 'Slaves of the soil' : caste and agricultural slavery in south India -- Imagined slaveries. Introduction : evangelical connections ; 'Satan's wretched slaves' : Indian society and the evangelical imagination ; 'The produce of the east by free men' : Indian sugar and Indian slavery in British abolitionist debates, 1793-1833 ; Conclusion : 'Do justice to India' : abolitionists and Indian slavery, 1839-1843
Explores the political, economic, and ideological agendas that at the height of the British abolition and missionary movements allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart
Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-351) and index
Other slaveries. Introduction ; 'To call a slave a slave' : recovering Indian slavery -- European slaveries. Introduction : slavery and colonial expansion in India ; 'A shameful and ruinous trade' : European slave-trafficking and the East India Company ; Bengalis, caffrees and Malays : European slave-holding and early colonial society -- Indian slaveries. Introduction : locating Indian slaveries ; 'This household servitude' : domestic slavery and immoral commerce ; 'Open and professed stealers of children' : slave-trafficking and the boundaries of the colonial state ; 'Slaves of the soil' : caste and agricultural slavery in south India -- Imagined slaveries. Introduction : evangelical connections ; 'Satan's wretched slaves' : Indian society and the evangelical imagination ; 'The produce of the east by free men' : Indian sugar and Indian slavery in British abolitionist debates, 1793-1833 ; Conclusion : 'Do justice to India' : abolitionists and Indian slavery, 1839-1843
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