Scholars@Duke
Titas Chakraborty

Titas Chakraborty

Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications

Slave Trade and Slavery in Asia—New Perspectives

Journal Article Journal of Social History · September 1, 2020 AbstractRecent years have witnessed an expanding body of scholarship indicating the importance of slave trade and slavery in different parts of the Indian Ocean and Indonesian archipelago worlds. This work h ... Full text Cite

Slave trading and slave resistance in the Indian Ocean world: the case of early eighteenth-century Bengal

Journal Article Slavery and Abolition · October 2, 2019 This article examines slave trading and slave resistance in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the English East India Company (EIC) settlements in early eighteenth-century Bengal. VOC and EIC officials exported slaves from Bengal, but also imported sla ... Full text Cite

A Global History of Runaways Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850

Book · July 30, 2019 Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. ... Cite

The household workers of the East India Company ports of pre-colonial Bengal

Journal Article International Review of Social History · April 1, 2019 This article examines the various experiences of slavery and freedom of female household workers in the Dutch and English East India Company (VOC and EIC, respectively) ports in Bengal in the early eighteenth century. Enslaved household workers in Bengal c ... Full text Cite