Contributed articles; with reference to India
Contributed articles; with reference to India.
"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, denie…
This book explores the complex interactions between imperial expansion, political abolitionism and colonial philanthropy that underpinned the ambivalent attitudes of both British evangelicals and East India company officials towards the existence of slavery in India in the perio…
Other Slaveries explores the complex interactions between imperial expansion, political abolitionism and colonial philanthropy that underpinned the ambivalent attitudes of both British evangelicals and East India company officials towards the existence of slavery in India 1772-1…
"There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery". (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In "Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843", Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company exp…