Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India

Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Download or read book Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India written by Indrani Chatterjee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume shows that slaves acquired by some ruling households were incorporated into patterns of kinship. Colonial abolitionist measures did not even try to release these slaves; they restructured ideologies of marriage and succession instead and eroded the status of slave-descended members over time.


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