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  • Social reforms : infanticide and sati / R. K. Saxena.

    • Text
    • New Delhi : Trimurti Publications, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JLD 77-4056Offsite
  • Papers relating to East India affairs: viz. Hindoo widows and voluntary immolations. Ordered, by the House of commons, to be printed

    • Text
    • [London?] 1821.
    • 1821
    • 1 Item
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    Text *ZAN-T3340 Reel 132 no. 854-858Offsite
  • Widows are not for burning : actions and attitudes of the Christian missionaries, the native Hindus, and Lord William Bentinck / Ajit Kumar Ray ; with a foreword by A.L. Basham.

    • Text
    • New Delhi, India : ABC Pub. House, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 87-992Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Satī / Svapana Basu.

    • Text
    • Kalakātā : Pustaka Bipaṇi, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OKV 88-5598Offsite
  • Socioeconomic impact of sati in Bengal and the role of Raja Rammohun Roy / Benoy Bhushan Roy.

    • Text
    • Calcutta, India : Naya Prokash, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 88-3631Offsite
  • Satīdāha / Gorācānda Mitra.

    • Text
    • Kalikātā : Śaṅkha Prakāśana, 1384 [1978]
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OKV 88-8436Offsite
  • Sati : historical and phenomenological essays / Arvind Sharma, with Ajit Ray, Alaka Hejib, Katherine K. Young ; foreword by M.N. Srinivas.

    • Text
    • Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OHO 89-18008Offsite
  • Trial by fire : a report on Roop Kanwar's death.

    • Text
    • Bombay : Printed on Behalf of the Women and Media Committee, Bombay Union of Journalists, [1987]
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OLY 90-2617Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Social history of 19th century Orissa / Nihar Ranjan Patnaik.

    • Text
    • Allahabad : Vohra Pub. and Distributors, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 90-1467Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Sati, a writeup of Raja Ram Mohan Roy about burning of widows alive / [edited by] Mulk Raj Anand.

    • Text
    • Delhi : B.R. Pub. Corp., 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OLY 90-2624Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Sati, a study of widow burning in India / Sakuntala Narasimhan.

    • Text
    • New Delhi, India ; New York, U.S.A. : Viking, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OLY 92-10287Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A passion for flames / Santosh Singh.

    • Text
    • Jaipur : RBSA Publishers, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OLY 90-9493Offsite
  • The myth of sati : some dimensions of widow burning / H.C. Upreti, Nandini Upreti.

    • Text
    • Bombay : Himalaya Pub. House, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OHO 93-1305Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Sati : widow burning in India / Sakuntala Narasimhan.

    • Text
    • New York : Doubleday, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OHO 93-3604Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Sati and social reforms in India / Meena Gaur.

    • Text
    • Jaipur : Publication Scheme : Distributed by Sharan Book Depot, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OHO 94-2586Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Real and imagined women : gender, culture, and postcolonialism / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 94-1943Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Bidhabā bibāha o Bāṃla kabitā / Aśokakumāra Miśra.

    • Text
    • Kalikātā : Senṭrāla Buka Pābaliśārsa, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OKV 95-3335Offsite
  • Satī, una tragedia indiana / Laura Piretti Santangelo.

    • Text
    • Bologna : CLUEB, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OHO 95-6063Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Widow-burning: a narrative. By Henry Jeffreys Bushby.

    • Text
    • London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.
    • 1855
    • 1 Item

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    Text BGP (Bushby, H. J. Widow-burning)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Cendres d'immortalité : la crémation des veuves en Inde / Catherine Weinberger-Thomas.

    • Text
    • [Paris] : Seuil, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OLY 96-8458Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Sati : a historical, social, and philosophical enquiry into the Hindu rite of widow burning / V.N. Datta.

    • Text
    • New Delhi : Manohar, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OLY 97-1650Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Horrid customs; or, An afflicting narrative relative to the burning of Hindoo widows on the funeral piles of their deceased husbands [microform] : developing numerous instances of dreadful cruelty and female devotion.

    • Text
    • London : Hodgson & Co., [18--?]
    • 1800-1899
  • Karnāṭakadallī satipaddhati / Bi. Es. Śēṭhe.

    • Text
    • Beḷagāvi : Vīraśaiva Adhyayana Akāḍemi, Śrī Nāganūru Rudrākṣimaṭha, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OLA 98-5416Offsite
  • Contentious traditions : the debate on Sati in colonial India / Lata Mani.

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    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 99-2381Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Horrid customs; or, An afflicting narrative relative to the burning of Hindoo windows on the funeral piles of their deceased husbands ... [Anon.]

    • Text
    • London, Hodgson [1826?]
    • 1826
  • Sati, a mythological story / translated from the original Bengali by the author, Rai Saheb Dinesh Chandra Sen ; with an introduction by J.D. Anderson.

    • Text
    • Calcutta : A.C. Chakraverti : N.K. Roy, [1916].
    • 1916
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OKV (Sen, D. C. Sati)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Traces of the custom of "suttee" in Norway during the Viking age.

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    • [London, 1910]
    • 1910-1910
  • Substance of the speech of Randle Jackson, Esq. [microform], at a general court of the proprietors of East-India stock, on Wednesday, March 28th, 1827, on the following motion: "That this court, taking into consideration the continuance of human sacrifices in India ..."

    • Text
    • London, J.L. Cox, 1827.
    • 1827
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z BBH p.v. 180-185 Reel 33Offsite
  • Translation of a conference between an advocate & an opponent of the practice of burning widows alive [microform], from the original Bungla.

    • Text
    • [Calcutta? 1818]
    • 1818
    • 1 Item
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    Text *Z BGN p.v. 1, BGP p.v. 1-2 Reel 47Offsite
  • Ashes of immortality : widow-burning in India / Catherine Weinberger-Thomas ; translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and David Gordon White.

    • Text
    • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 00-8511Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Death by fire : sati, dowry death and female infanticide in modern India / Mala Sen.

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    • London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 2 Items
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    Text *OHO 01-5999Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Burning women : widows, witches, and early modern European travelers in India / Pompa Banerjee.

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    • New York ; Houndmills, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 03-3051Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Burning women : a global history of widow sacrifice from ancient times to the present / Joerg Fisch ; translated from the German by Rekha Kamath Rajan.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Seagull, 2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 05-14298Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Immolating women : a global history of widow burning from ancient times to the present / Jörg Fisch ; translated from the German by Rekha Kamath Rajan.

    • Text
    • Delhi : Permanent Black ; Bangalore : Orient Longman, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 07-1122Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Pious flames : European encounters with sati, 1500-1830 / by Andrea Major.

    • Text
    • New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 07-2317Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Sati : a historical anthology / edited by Andrea Major.

    • Text
    • New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 08-4528Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Two letters addressed to the supreme government of British India, regarding the abolition of suttees : and the best means of ameliorating the moral and intellectual condition of the natives if India / By Charles Boileau Elliott, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service.

    • Text
    • Salisbury : Printed by Brodie and Downing, [1827].
    • 1827
    • 1 Item
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    Text Pforz (Elliott, C. B. Two letters addressed to the supreme government of British India)Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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  • Papers relating to East India affairs [electronic resource] : viz. Hindoo widows and voluntary immolations / ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 10 July 1821.

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    • [London? : s.n.], 1821.
    • 1821
    • 1 Resource

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  • Contentious traditions [electronic resource] : the debate on Sati in colonial India / Lata Mani.

    • Text
    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Resource

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  • Contentious traditions [electronic resource] : the debate on Sati in colonial India / Lata Mani.

    • Text
    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 2 Resources

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  • Les violences envers les femmes indiennes : divinisation, diabolisation / Brigitte Tison.

    • Text
    • Paris : L'Harmattan, [2018]
    • 2018-2018
    • 1 Item
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    Text ReCAP 19-62983Offsite
  • Death by fire : sati, dowry, death, and female infanticide in modern India / Mala Sen.

    • Text
    • New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
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    Text *OHO 03-10116Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Women and the post-colonial Indian state / Nilendra Bardiar.

    • Text
    • New Delhi : Ruby Press & Co., 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text KNS543 .B37 2014gOff-site
  • Sati : Evangelicals, Baptist missionaries, and the changing colonial discourse / Meenakshi Jain.

    • Text
    • New Delhi : Aryan Books International, 2016.
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GT3320 .J35 2016Off-site
  • Real and imagined women : gender, culture, and postcolonialism / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HQ1075.5.I4 S86 1993Off-site
  • Tödliche Rituale : die indische Witwenverbrennung und andere Formen der Totenfolge / Jörg Fisch.

    • Text
    • Frankfurt ; New York : Campus Verlag, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GT3370 .F583 1998gOff-site
  • Satī / Svapana Basu.

    • Text
    • Kalakātā : Pustaka Bipaṇi, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GT3370 .B37 1982Off-site
  • Satī / Svapana Basu.

    • Text
    • Kalikātā : Pustaka Bipaṇi, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IB 78-906070Off-site
  • Satīdāha / Gorācān̐da Mitra.

    • Text
    • Kalikātā : Śaṅkha Prakāśana, 1384 [1978]
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IB 78-95443Off-site
  • Bāṃlāẏa satīdāha : sāmājika o arthanaitika mulyāẏana / Biṇaẏa Bhūshaṇa Rāẏa.

    • Text
    • Kalikātā : Sāhityaśrī, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GT3370 .R395 1986Off-site

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