Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition by David Arnold

Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition

David Arnold

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Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the so-called tradit...

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