ACLS Humanities E-Book: Contentious traditions: the debate on Sati in colonial India

Contentious traditions: the debate on Sati in colonial India

Mani, Lata, 1956-

Year: c1998.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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Frontmatter

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 Equivocations in the Name of Tradition: The Official Debate on Widow Burning

2 Abstract Disquisitions: Bhadralok and the Normative Violence of Sati

3 Missionaries and Subalterns: Belaboring Tradition in the Marketplace

4 Traveling Texts: The Consolidation of Missionary Discourse on India

5 The Female Subject, the Colonial Gaze: Eyewitness Accounts of Sati

AFTERWORD

NOTES

GLOSSARY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Title:

Contentious traditions : the debate on Sati in colonial India Lata Mani.

Author:

Mani, Lata, 1956-

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Contentious traditions : the debate on Sati in colonial India Lata Mani.
Mani, Lata, 1956-
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998.

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• Sati

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