Pious Flames: European Encounters with Sati 1500-1830

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The volume interprets the influential early nineteenth-century debate on Sati by placing it in the context of a varied tradition of heterogeneous and ambivalent western responses to the rite. By tracing the shifting interpretations of this custom found in European accounts, it demonstrates how changing representations of Indian society and culture were interwoven with socio-ideological trends and concerns in the observer's own society.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195678184

ISBN13:9780195678185

Release Date:April 2006

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:268 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"

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