Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India by Lata Mani

Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India

Lata Mani

259 pages first pub 1998 (view editions)

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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 w...

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