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Malik Ambar: Power and Slavery Across the Indian Ocean by Omar H. Ali

scorbus's review

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fast-paced

lucyb's review against another edition

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4.0

Lucid, readable, and engaging, this is an exemplary microhistory, in my opinion. Its use of sources is transparent, and there's an appendix with a variety of translated primary sources from Mughal and European authors. I thought Ali's treatment of the complicated political situation in the Deccan was intelligent and clear, but I did find that some undergraduates (with a poor secondary education) found it overwhelming.
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