Sati : a historical anthology / edited by Andrea Major
- Bib ID:
- 3964102
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
- lv, 465 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0195678958
- 9780195678956
- 9780195678956
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Major, Andrea
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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