Slavery and the household in Bengal, 1770-1880

This thesis outlines a political economy within which slaves lived and worked, within the households of the hegemons in Bengal between the end of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth. Within household-polities that contained slaves, there were many distinctions according to skill, ag...

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Main Author: Chatterjee, Indrani
Published: SOAS, University of London 1996
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758586