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Contentious Traditions : The Debate on Sati in Colonial India /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[1998]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2019 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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