Drudges, dancing girls, concubines: Female slaves in Rajput polity, 1500-1850

Slavery and South Asian History

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 136-161

  Sreenivasan, Ramya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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14. Ramya Sreenivasan, "The 'Marriage' of 'Hindu' and 'Turak': Medieval Rajput Histories of Jalor," Medieval History Journal 7, no. 1 (2004), 87-108.
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