Subject(s): Labours -- Peonage in India in Congresses. -- Labour market in India in Congresses. -- Agrarian bondage in historical perspective -- Unfree rural labour in post 1843 eastern India, Entrapped between bondage and freedom- paraiyans and changing fortunes of agrestic servitude in colonial and post colonial Tamil Nadu -- Atiyaayma in post-Abolition Malabar, From contract to status or how law shaped labour relations in colonial India -- Contemporary forms of Bondage -- Conceptualizing continuity and changing in emerging forms of labour bondage in India, Bondage in India- Responding the past or the present - case of the Dhanbad coal belt during the 1980s -- Corridors of migration and chains of dependence brick kiln moulders in Tamil Nadu, Hoe (Un) free are the workers in the labour market, Neo-bondage, seasonal migration and job brokers -- Labour middlemen and the rise of the lower castes in Andhra Pradesh, Bonded labour in the rice mills, Unfree labour in Plantation system -- Urgent need for legal and global action -- Bonded labour and the courts, Global alliance against forced labour , Neo-liberal globalization, International labour organization