In this
#OpenAccess article, Indrani Chatterjee traces the career of women slaves in the nineteenth century household-state of Awadh, before considering how British official necropolitics has shaped the historiography of slavery until the present.
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Using both English and Urdu-language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro-Asian women slaves in the household-state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth centu...