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The institution represented unfree labor with fewer rights, but "the supposed slavery in [ancient] India was of mild character and limited extent" like Babylonian and Hebrew slavery, in contrast to the Hellenic world. [32] The "unfree labor" could be of two types in ancient India: the underadsatva and the ahitaka, states Ishay. [32]
Ancient historians who visited India offer the closest insights into the nature of Indian society and slavery in other ancient civilizations. For example, the Greek historian Arrian , who chronicled India about the time of Alexander the Great , wrote in his Indika , [ 226 ]
Pages in category "Indian slaves" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Army of the Mughal Empire;
Slave trading in the Indian Ocean goes back to 2500 BCE. [3] Ancient Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Indians, and Persians all traded slaves on a small scale across the Indian Ocean (and sometimes the Red Sea). [4] Slave trading in the Red Sea around the time of Alexander the Great is described by Agatharchides. [4]
The ancient Hindu text Arthashastra states, according to Sharma, that Aryas were free men and could not be subject to slavery under any circumstances. [26] The text contrasts Aryas with Shudra, but neither as a hereditary slave nor as an economically closed social stratum in a manner that the term Shudra later was interpreted.
Megasthenes states that there were no slaves in India, but the Arthashastra attests to the existence of slavery in contemporary India; [37] Strabo also counters Megasthenes's claim based on a report from Onesicritus. Historian Shireen Moosvi theorizes that slaves were outcastes, and were not considered members of the society at all. [38]
The following list enumerates Hindu monarchies in chronological order of establishment dates. These monarchies were widespread in South Asia since about 1500 BC, [1] went into slow decline in the medieval times, with most gone by the end of the 17th century, although the last one, the Kingdom of Nepal, dissolved only in the 2008.
As a child he was sold in slavery by his parents [143] Mir Qasim Al Baghdadi, one of his slave owners, eventually converted Chapu to Islam and gave him the name Ambar, after recognizing his superior intellectual qualities. [144] [145] Malik was brought to India as a slave. While in India he created a mercenary force numbering up to 1500 men.