Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India
- List Price: $32.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
Description:
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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