Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 / Andrea Major.

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.

xx, 361 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

pt. I. Other slaveries. Introduction -- 'To call a slave a slave' : recovering Indian slavery -- pt. II. European slaveries. Introduction : slavery and colonial expansion in India -- 'A shameful and ruinous trade' : European slave-trafficking and the East India Company -- Bengalis, Caffrees and Malays : European slave-holding and early colonial society -- pt. III. Indian slaveries. Introduction : locating Indian slaveries -- 'This household servitude' : domestic slavery and immoral commerce -- 'Open and professed stealers of children' : slave-trafficking and the boundaries of the colonial state -- 'Slaves of the soil' : caste and agricultural slavery in south India -- pt. IV. Imagined slaveries. Introduction : evangelical connections -- 'Satan's wretched slaves' : Indian society and the evangelical imagination -- '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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-351) and index.