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In the 1830s, most chattel slaves in India were indigenous Indian women and children, employed as domestic house servants, concubines (sex slaves) dancing girls, soldiers or agricultural laborers, while it was more common for laborers to be serfs rather than slaves; in 1841 there were reportedly an estimated 9 million slaves in India, most of ...
The Indian Slavery Act, 1843, also known as Act V of 1843, was an act passed in British India under East India Company rule, which outlawed many economic transactions associated with slavery. The act states how the sale of any person as a slave was banned, and anyone buying or selling slaves would be prosecuted under the law, the offence ...
For almost a century, his descendants ruled North-Central India in form of Slave Dynasty. Several slaves were also brought to India by the Indian Ocean trades; for example, the Siddi are descendants of Bantu slaves brought to India by Arab and Portuguese merchants. [247] Andre Wink summarizes the slavery in 8th and 9th century India as follows,
The patterns of slavery and slave population varied between districts. Various laws were passed during 1811, 1812 and 1823 to restrict slavery and prevent child labour, though the slave trade was only ended with the Indian Slavery Act, 1843 , and the sale of slaves became a criminal offence in 1862 under the new Indian Penal Code .
The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6 million workers [1] from British India were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labour, following the abolition of the trade in the early 19th century.
Chatterjee is the author and editor of four books, Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India, [3] Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia, [4] Slavery and South Asian History, and Forgotten Friends: Monks, Marriages, and Memories of Northeast India. [5]
Instead, Portugal's colonial era, during which countries including Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde and East Timor as well as parts of India were subjected to Portuguese rule, is often ...
Slavery in India was widespread by the 6th century BC, and perhaps even as far back as the Vedic period. [220] Slavery intensified during the Muslim domination of northern India after the 11th-century. [221] Slavery existed in Portuguese India after the 16th century.