Slave in a palanquin (Record no. 60164)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780231197632
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2,5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.
Bill Number : 119178
Bill Date : 06/04/2023
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.362 WIC
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wickramasinghe, Nira.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Slave in a palanquin
Remainder of title : colonial servitude and resistance in Sri Lanka.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Nira Wickramasinghe.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc ; Columbia University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi,299p.
Dimensions :24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2982
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note <br/>Intro<br/>Table of Contents<br/>List of Illustrations<br/>Acknowledgments<br/>Introduction<br/>1. A Dutch Fiscal's Murder: Interrogating the Identity of Slaves, Blacks, and "Kaffirs"<br/>2. From Colombo to Galle: Enslaved Bodies in an Archive of Violence<br/>3. Slave in a Palanquin: Jaffna in the Early Nineteenth Century<br/>4. The Chilaw "Experiment": Labor for Freedom<br/>5. The Plaint of an Emancipated Slave: A Play in Two Acts<br/>6. Eclipse of the Slave: Traces, Hauntings<br/>Glossary<br/>Notes<br/>Bibliography<br/>Index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "From the very early days of the Western colonial project, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopping point in the Indian Ocean. For four hundred years, Sri Lanka transferred from the Portuguese, to the Dutch, to the British, serving for all of them as a crossroads in transnational trade in the imperial period. Often overlooked is the extent to which this island became a waystation in colonists' Indian Ocean slave trade, with enslaved Africans coming to work on island plantations there and Sri Lankans exported to other colonies as forced labor 'coolies.' Recovering the individual voices of enslaved people in this unique locale, Slave in a Palanquin explores how slavery in the Indian Ocean world was just as embedded in the fabric of everyday life and in transnational encounters as it was in its far more prominent Atlantic Ocean cousin. Scholars have argued that the fact that there were fewer slaves in places like Sri Lanka than in the Americas, and that the region had a tradition of temporarily bonded labor, means no real slave trade activity of any consequence existed there, but Nira Wickramasinghe draws upon archival sources to dispute these false memories and false equivalencies. Further, the book demonstrates that even though the official end of slavery in Sri Lanka and the surrounding region came early, in 1844, and without devastating revolutions like those in Haiti and the United States, the transition was by no means painless. Instead of leading to real emancipation, she argues, the end of formal slavery led to an ambivalent freedom filled with bonded plantation labor and indentured servitude, with lasting negative consequences. A true subaltern history, this book rethinks not only the local history of colonial Sri Lanka but also the history of the Indian Ocean world"
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Slavery
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Esclaves Sri Lanka Histoire
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sri Lanka
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Nira Wickramasinghe.
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Koha item type Books
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 12/04/2023 International Book Distributors 2982.00   306.362 WIC 29228 12/04/2023 12/04/2023 Books
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