Slavery and South Asian History

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

Despite its pervasive presence in the South Asian
past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because
the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation
slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking
of slavery in world history, and even ...