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Gender, Race, and Space: African Elites, Continuity and Change in South Asian Political Landscapes, c. 1500-1800

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Habshis—people of African descent in early modern India—are best known as military slaves in the Muslim sultanates of the Deccan region, a handful of whom rose to political prominence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Scholars argue that, unlike the alienation that characterized Atlantic African slave diasporas, military slavery encouraged...

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Habshi, Gender, Politics of Difference, Territorial Claims, Military Slavery, Siddi, South Asia, African Diaspora, Elite Slavery, Military Masculinity, Race, Maratha State, and Deccan

Creator:

Anisha Bhat

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/18/2020

Date Modified:

09/18/2020

Date Created:

2020

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Video