Sati: a historical anthology

by Major, Andrea

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Contributed articles; with reference to India.

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Full title :Sati : a historical anthology / edited by Andrea Major.

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Contributed articles; with reference to India.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New Delhi
Language:eng
Publication Date:2007.

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Description:lv, 465 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0195678958, 9780195678956
oclc:ocn123377685
LC Classification:GT3276
Dewey Decimal:393.9

I. Sati in ancient and medieval India -- 1. Extracts on Sati from Hindu texts -- 2. Classical and medieval accounts -- II. Early modern and colonial accounts -- 3. Early modern travellers -- 4. The eighteenth century -- 5. The nineteenth century -- III. Debating abolition (1805-30) -- 6. Missionaries and philanthropists -- 7. Official debate -- 8. Indian opinions -- IV. Sati in the princely states -- 9. Accounts -- 10. Official policy -- 11. Indian responses -- V. Sati in the era of nationalism -- 12. The Barh Sati, 1927 -- 13. British ideas -- 14. Indian attitudes -- VI. Literary representations -- 15. Early modern and eighteenth-century fiction -- 16. Early nineteenth-century fiction -- 17. Raj fiction -- 18. Indian fiction -- VII. Sati in contemporary India, Roop Kanwar, and beyond -- 19. Roop Kanwar -- 20. Charan Shah -- 21. Secondary sources.

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Änkebränning History India Satī Satī -- Sources. -- Histoire Sati -- Sources. -- History Sources Veuves -- Sources. -- Suicide Weduwenverbranding Widow suicide Widow suicide -- Sources