"Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia" is the companion volume to Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia which was published by Routledge in 2005. This second volume, as implied by the title, recognizes the complexity of forms of bondage in the Indian Ocean world - incorporating regions running from East Africa to the Middle East, to South and Southeast Asia to the Far East - and of resistance to them. Slavery, in the conventional sense of the word, was in the region covered one of many, often overlapping, forms of unfree labor that included, in addition, various types of forced or corvee labor, debt bondage and indentured or contract labor. This volume examines resistance to forms of bondage in a variety of precolonial, colonial and postcolonial regimes, from revolt against slavery in South Africa, to resistance to colonial forced labor schemes in Somalia, the Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte and Madagascar, India, Indonesia and Indochina, and the fight of Aborigines for human rights on the cattle ranches of Northern Australia. Just as the companion volume Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia revealed that reactions to slavery in Africa and Asia were far more complex than the conventional historical emphasis on forms of 'revolt' implies, this collection of essays reveals an unexpectedly wide range of often very subtle forms of resistance to a variety of repressive labor regimes in the Indian Ocean world. In so doing, it will appeal to all those interested in exploring the wider debate over the structure of unfree labor regimes and resistance to them.

Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Gwyn Campbell is Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History in the Department of History, McGill University, Canada. Michael Salman is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles.

1. Introduction Gwyn Campbell 2. Indian Ocean Slavery and its Demise in the Cape Colony Nigel Worden 3. The Bel Ombre Rebellion: Indian convicts in Mauritius, 1815-53 Clare Anderson 4. Abolition and its Aftermath in Madagascar, 1877-1949 Gwyn Campbell 5. Abolition and its Impact on the Benadir Coast Omar Eno 6. Slavery and the Slave Trade in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf States, 1920s-1960s Suzanne Miers 7. The "Shari'a and the Anti-Slave Trade "Farman" of 1848 in Iran Behnaz Mirzai 8. The Slave Trade and its Fallout in the Persian Gulf Abdul Sheriff, Advisor, Zanzibar Museums 9. Abolition by Denial? Slavery in South Asia after 1843 Indrani Chatterjee 10. Plantation Labour in the Brahmapura Valley: Regional enclaves in a colonial context, 1881-1921 Keya Dasgupta 11. Colonialism, Nationalism and the Meaning of Slavery: The genealogy of "an insult to the American government and to the Filipino people" Michael Salman 12. Islamic Attitudes towards the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Indian Ocean, c1800-c1940 W.G. Clarence Smith 13. The Emancipation of Slaves in the Indian Ocean Martin Klein