Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
361 pages | 15 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2012
In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772–1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when the East India Company’s expansion in India, British abolitionism, and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied, or excused? By exploring Britain’s ambivalent relationship with both real and imagined slaveries in India and the official, evangelical, and popular discourses that surrounded them, she seeks to uncover the various political, economic, and ideological agendas that allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its transatlantic counterpart.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Some Prominent Figures in the British Parliament, the Abolitionist Movement and the East India Company
Part I. Other Slavers
Introduction
1. 'To Call a Slave a Slave': Recovering Indian Slavery
Part II. European Slaveries
Introduction: Slavery and Colonial Expansion in India
2. 'A Shameful and Ruinous Trade': European Slave-trafficking and the East India Company
3. Bengalis, Caffrees and Malays: European Slave-holding and Early Colonial Society
Part III. Indian Slaveries
Introduction: Locating Indian Slaveries
4. 'This Household Servitude': Domestic Slavery and Immoral Commerce
5. 'Open and Professed Stealers of Children': Slave-trafficking and the Boundaries of the Colonial State 6. 'Slaves of the Soil': Caste and Agricultural Slavery in South India
Part IV. Imagined Slaveries
Introduction: Evangelical Connections
7. Satan's Wretched Slaves': Indian Society and the Evangelical Imagination
8. 'The Produce of the East by Free Men': Indian Sugar and Indian Slavery in British Abolitionist Debates, 1793–1833
Conclusion: 'Do Justice to India': Abolitionists and Indian Slavery, 1839–1843
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Some Prominent Figures in the British Parliament, the Abolitionist Movement and the East India Company
Part I. Other Slavers
Introduction
1. 'To Call a Slave a Slave': Recovering Indian Slavery
Part II. European Slaveries
Introduction: Slavery and Colonial Expansion in India
2. 'A Shameful and Ruinous Trade': European Slave-trafficking and the East India Company
3. Bengalis, Caffrees and Malays: European Slave-holding and Early Colonial Society
Part III. Indian Slaveries
Introduction: Locating Indian Slaveries
4. 'This Household Servitude': Domestic Slavery and Immoral Commerce
5. 'Open and Professed Stealers of Children': Slave-trafficking and the Boundaries of the Colonial State 6. 'Slaves of the Soil': Caste and Agricultural Slavery in South India
Part IV. Imagined Slaveries
Introduction: Evangelical Connections
7. Satan's Wretched Slaves': Indian Society and the Evangelical Imagination
8. 'The Produce of the East by Free Men': Indian Sugar and Indian Slavery in British Abolitionist Debates, 1793–1833
Conclusion: 'Do Justice to India': Abolitionists and Indian Slavery, 1839–1843
Select Bibliography
Index
By
Kalidas Shinde
PhD Scholar
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