Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction/Amrendra Kumar Thakur. 3. Women slaves in Northeast India: a study/Laithangpuii and Amrendra Kumar Thakur. 3. Slavery among the Singpho and the Khampti tribes of Arunachal Pradesh: an overview/Goken Geyi. 4. The system of servitude in the temples and the Satras of Assam/Nirmal Jyoti Konwar. 5. Lallup in history: a study of state domination in Manipur/H. Sudhir. 6. Slavery in the Garo Society: a study of pre-colonial and colonial times/Angira Kar. 7. Slavery and bondage in the Khasi-Jaintia Society/Hermina Bani Lakiang. 8. Bawi/Boi and Sal in Mizoram/Amrendra Kumar Thakur. 9. Emergence and nature of slavery among the Nagas/Chubala Sanglir. 10. Slavery in Tripura: a historical overview/Pradip Kumar Deepak. 11. Slave trade in Tripura/Ratan Majumder. 12. Bionotes of the contributors and the editor. 13. Index.