This book offers an important reinterpretation of major themes of sovereignty, authority and social reform in colonial South Asian history. Focusing on the British prohibition of sati in 1829, the author shows how the debates that preceded this legislation have effectively set the terms of post-colonial debates about sati, as well as more generally defining the parameters of British involvement in Indian social and religious issues.
This book offers an important reinterpretation of major themes of sovereignty, authority and social reform in colonial South Asian history. Focusing on the British prohibition of sati in 1829, the author shows how the debates that preceded this legislation have effectively set the terms of post-colonial debates about sati, as well as more generally defining the parameters of British involvement in Indian social and religious issues.
Andrea Major is Lecturer in Wider World History at the University of Leeds. She is author of Pious Flames: European Encounters with Sati, 1500-1830 and editor of Sati: A Historical Anthology.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Chivalry Sacrifice and Devotion: Imagining Sati in Rajput Society 2. Princes Politics and Pragmatism: The Formation of British Policy on Sati in the Princely States 3. Victims Perpetrators and Self-Determined Sacrifices: Strategies for Suppressing Sati in the Princely States
1. Chivalry Sacrifice and Devotion: Imagining Sati in Rajput Society 2. Princes Politics and Pragmatism: The Formation of British Policy on Sati in the Princely States 3. Victims Perpetrators and Self-Determined Sacrifices: Strategies for Suppressing Sati in the Princely States
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