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 membersover time.
language: English
title: Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India
titlecomplete: Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India
genres: Gender, History
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Oxford University Press