Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery' (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British abolitionism and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied or excused? By exploring |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Imagined Slaveries | 8 |
Recovering Indian Slavery | 18 |
Slavery and Colonial Expansion in India | 41 |
European Slaveholding | 85 |
Indian Slaveries | 123 |
Slavetrafficking | 163 |
Caste and Agricultural Slavery in South India | 189 |
Evangelical Connections | 233 |
Indian Society and the Evangelical | 246 |
Indian Sugar and Indian | 293 |
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