Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843
Major, Andrea2014
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Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company 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 which allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart.
Main title:
Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 / Andrea Major.
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Imprint:
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.
Collation:
384 pages ; 24 cm.
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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781781381113 (pbk)
Dewey class:
306.362095306.362
Language:
English
Subject:
Slavery -- India -- History -- 18th centurySlavery -- India -- History -- 19th centuryAntislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryAntislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centurySlavery and the church -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centurySlavery and the church -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryIndia -- Social conditions -- 18th centuryIndia -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryIndia -- Social life and customs -- 18th centuryIndia -- Social life and customs -- 19th centurySociety
BRN:
1049606
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