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Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
Contentious Traditions The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
Author: Lata Mani, University of California Press, Lata, 1956 Mani
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 who were burned were marginal to the debate and that the controversy was over definitions of ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520214071
ISBN-10: 0520214072
Publication Date: 12/30/1998
Pages: 259
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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