eprintid: 28414
rev_number: 20
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datestamp: 2020-06-23 13:27:01
lastmod: 2020-06-25 13:01:27
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type: doctoralThesis
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creators_name: Molfenter, Christine
title: The Abolition of Bonded Labour and Slavery in India. From ‘Poor Law’ to a Fundamental Right – the Gradual Changes of an Institution, 1843-1990
subjects: 320
subjects: 950
divisions: 180500
adv_faculty: af-18
cterms_swd: Sklaverei
cterms_swd: Schuldknechtschaft
cterms_swd: Indien
cterms_swd: Bonded Labour
cterms_swd: Slavery
cterms_swd: Workman’s Breach of Contract Act of 1859
cterms_swd: Indian high courts
cterms_swd: India
cterms_swd: colonialism
cterms_swd: gradual institutional change
cterms_swd: Bonded Labour System Abolition Act
cterms_swd: Constituent Assembly of India
abstract: This dissertation focuses on the development of policies against bonded labour and slavery in India between 1843 and the 1990s. Starting with the abolition of the slave trade by the British in 1833, the author argues that the following developments of the policies and the interpretation of the high courts of anti-slavery legislation, incrementally changed over the period of 200 years. Taking a historical institutionalist approach, this work suggests an adaptation of the theory of gradual institutional change developed by Thelen, Mahoney and Streeck and tests it to the case of the abolition of slavery in India with a particular focus on bonded labour.
date: 2020
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00028414
ppn_swb: 1702172511
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-284143
date_accepted: 2019-11-15
advisor: HASH(0x564e1c879d80)
language: eng
bibsort: MOLFENTERCTHEABOLITI2020
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
citation:   Molfenter, Christine  (2020) The Abolition of Bonded Labour and Slavery in India. From ‘Poor Law’ to a Fundamental Right – the Gradual Changes of an Institution, 1843-1990.  [Dissertation]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/28414/1/The_Abolition_of_Bonded_Labour_and_Slavery_in_India_pdfA.pdf