Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 - 6

Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British abolitionism, and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied or excused?

By exploring Britain's ambivalent relationship with both real and imagined slaveries in India, and the official, evangelical, and popular discourses that surrounded them, she seeks to uncover the various political, economic, and ideological agendas which allowed East Indian slavery to be represented as qualitatively different from its trans-Atlantic counterpart.