Local Networks of the Slave Trade in Colonial Kerala

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Maps IX
4. Opening Thoughts
5. Slavery and Labour Coercion in Asia – Towards a Global History 1
6. Reflections on Comparing and Connecting Regimes of Slavery and Coerced Labour 17
7. Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slaving in Early-Modern Asia 31
8. Coerced Mobilities
9. Maritime (Im)mobility: Reconstructing the Supply of Enslaved Labour to Batavia, 1624–1801 49
10. A Slave Economy in the East Indies: Seaborne Transportation of Slaves to the Banda Islands 77
11. The ‘Coolie Trade’ via Southeast Asia: Exporting Chinese Indentured Labourers to Cuba through the Spanish Philippines 97
12. Regimes
13. Boundaries of Bondage: Slavery and Enslaveability in VOC Ceylon 119
14. Government Slavery in Portuguese Melaka, 1511–1523 141
15. The Eastward Routes: Swedish Prisoners and Overlapping Regimes of Coercion in the Russian, Chinese and Dzungar Empires 161
16. Households, Family Politics, and Slavery in Nepal 179
17. Local Networks of the Slave Trade in Colonial Kerala 199
18. Transformations
19. Suspicion and Repression: Ming China, Tokugawa Japan, and the End of the Japanese-European Slave Trade (1614–1635) 213
20. Famine Labour and Coercion in Relief-based Public Works Construction in Colonial India in the Late Nineteenth Century 231
21. Bibliography 251
22. List of Contributors 273
23. Index 275