Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University.

Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

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IntroductionRichard M. Eaton

1. Renewed and Connected Histories: Slavery and the Historiography of South AsiaIndrani Chatterjee

2. War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola EmpireDaud Ali

3. Turkish Slaves on Islam's Indian FrontierPeter Jackson

4. Service, Status, and Military Slavery in the Delhi Sultanate: Thirteenth and Fourteenth CenturiesSunil Kumar

5. The Rise and Fall of Military Slavery in the Deccan, 1450-1650Richard M. Eaton

6. Drudges, Dancing Girls, Concubines: Female Slaves in Rajput Polity, 1500-1850Ramya Sreenivasan

7. Slavery, Society, and the State in Western India, 1700-1800Sumit Guha

8. Bound for Britain: Changing Conditions of Servitude, 1600-1857Michael H. Fisher

9. Bharattee's Death: Domestic Slave-Women in Nineteenth-Century MadrasSylvia Vatuk

10. Slaves or Soldiers? African Conscripts in Portuguese India, 1857-1860Timothy Walker

11. Indian Muslim Modernists and the Issue of Slavery in IslamAvril A. Powell

12. Slavery, Semantics, and the Sound of SilenceIndrani Chatterjee

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