Women Trafficking in the Princely State of Cooch Behar
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2015-03
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Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History
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Bhattacharya, Dahlia
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University of North Bengal
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Mustafi, T. (2015). Women Trafficking in the Princely State of Cooch Behar. Karatoya : North Bengal University Journal of History, 8, 195–202. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3930
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Mustafi, Tamali
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The present paper focus on the scenario of women trafficking in the princely
state of Cooch Behar as well as on the records of West Bengal State Archive containing a
detail study of such an oppressive practice. Slavery was practiced in Cooch Behar and
there ~as a regular slave trade. Poor people mortgaged or sold their , daughters and
wives as slaves. Every years girls from Cooch Behar and Assam were sent to various parts
of Bengal for sale. Some of the royal personalities of Cooch Behar strongly opposed this
system. Ultimately the British Government had taken the initiative to ban women
trafficking. They legally ceased those markets.
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8
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2229-4880
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195 - 202