Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India

Indrani Chatterjee

(31 Mar 1999)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN:	9780195641813
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	31 Mar 1999
DEWEY:	306.362095409034
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	286
Weight:	561g
Height:	210mm
Width:	140mm
Spine width:	24mm