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Sati : a historical anthology
- Title
- Sati : a historical anthology / edited by Andrea Major.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Major, Andrea.
- Description
- lv, 465 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Contributed articles; with reference to India.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0195678958
- 9780195678956
- LCCN
- 2007394118
- OCLC
- ocn123377685
- 123377685
- SCSB-1423006
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library