Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." --Edward A. Alpers, UCLA

• List of MapsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationIntroductionRichard M. Eaton1. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South AsiaIndrani Chatterjee2. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola EmpireDaud Ali3. Turkish Slaves on Islam's Indian FrontierPeter Jackson4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth and Fourteenth CenturiesSunil Kumar5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450–1650Richard M. Eaton6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500–1850Ramya Sreenivasan7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700–1800Sumit Guha8. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600–1857Michael H. Fisher9. Bharattee's Death: Domestic Slave-Women in Nineteenth-Century MadrasSylvia Vatuk10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857–1860Timothy Walker11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in IslamAvril A. Powell12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of SilenceIndrani ChatterjeeList of ContributorsIndex

Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." --Edward A. Alpers, UCLA

• List of MapsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationIntroductionRichard M. Eaton1. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South AsiaIndrani Chatterjee2. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola EmpireDaud Ali3. Turkish Slaves on Islam's Indian FrontierPeter Jackson4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth and Fourteenth CenturiesSunil Kumar5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450–1650Richard M. Eaton6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500–1850Ramya Sreenivasan7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700–1800Sumit Guha8. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600–1857Michael H. Fisher9. Bharattee's Death: Domestic Slave-Women in Nineteenth-Century MadrasSylvia Vatuk10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857–1860Timothy Walker11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in IslamAvril A. Powell12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of SilenceIndrani ChatterjeeList of ContributorsIndex

Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." --Edward A. Alpers, UCLA

• List of MapsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationIntroductionRichard M. Eaton1. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South AsiaIndrani Chatterjee2. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola EmpireDaud Ali3. Turkish Slaves on Islam's Indian FrontierPeter Jackson4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth and Fourteenth CenturiesSunil Kumar5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450–1650Richard M. Eaton6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500–1850Ramya Sreenivasan7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700–1800Sumit Guha8. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600–1857Michael H. Fisher9. Bharattee's Death: Domestic Slave-Women in Nineteenth-Century MadrasSylvia Vatuk10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857–1860Timothy Walker11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in IslamAvril A. Powell12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of SilenceIndrani ChatterjeeList of ContributorsIndex