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Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
Lata Mani
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| #1068672 in Books | 1998-12-30 | 1998-12-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.65 x6.00l,.92 | File type: PDF | 259 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By dheepa sundaram|excellent modern piece on sati.|7 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| an important intervention for the specialist and non specialist alike|By R. Govind|This book is important not only for those interested in 'sati' (whatever their motives might be) but also for anyone interested in e||"Examines the documents of the colonial bureaucracy, the writings of the nineteenth-century indigenous male elite, the journals and publications of missionaries, and numerous European eyewitness accounts. She asks why the British first loudly denounced it, the
Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that the controversy was over definitions of Hindu tradition, the place of ritual in religious worship, the civilizing missions of colonialism and evangelism, and...
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