false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217351767m/74681.jpg 215678 9 In a leisurely blend of travelogue, history and cross-cultural analysis, Indian writer Ghosh reconstructs a 12th-century master-slave relationship that confounds modern concepts of slavery. Abraham Ben Yiju, a prosperous Tunisian Jewish merchant based in medieval Cairo, resettled in Aden, then spent two decades on India's Malabar Coast, where he hired a slave or servant, probably of Indian origin, named Bomma. Bomma acted as Ben Yiju's business agent and made overseas trips for him. In medieval India and the Middle East, Ghosh points out, servitude was often a career opportunity, the principal means of recruitment into privileged strata of the army and bureaucracy. Researching in letters and documents in Egypt, where he lived for several years, Ghosh evokes a world of mud-walled houses and class warfare between Egyptian laborers and landowners. He also writes vividly of southern India, a tapestry of castes, cults and worship of spirit-deities. 72234 1994 In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale total:312|5:98|4:111|3:76|2:21|1:6| 312 1210 519 27 5 3 false false Tue Jul 24 14:47:55 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 17:00:23 -0700 2007 3
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