India

Continent: Asia
Capital: New Delhi
Abolition Date:1860: The Indian Penal Code 1860 which effectively abolished slavery in India by making the enslavement of human beings a criminal offence.
Start Date: See Notes...
Currency: Indian Rupee

Languages Spoken: Hindi 30%, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all official); Hindi/Urdu; 1,600+ dialects
Population: As estimated in late 2006, is 1,103,596,000.
National Anthem: "Jana-Gana-Mana" (Thou Art the Ruler of the Minds of All People)

Slavery start date India

In the early period (500BCE-500 CE), where we first have significant amount of written records mainly in the form of literature and legal or policy texts, we find features of slavery as practised to have significant differences from contemporary slave-economies such as that of Greece and Rome - such as the absence of records of regular slave markets, or presence of legal strictures restricting abuse and exploitation of slaves.
Slavery also existed in Portuguese India after the 16th century. Indian child workers, some as young as 10 years old, have recently been discovered working in abysmal conditions in a textile factory making clothes that are destined for Gap Kids stores.

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