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Search - Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
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Contentious Traditions The Debate on Sati in Colonial India Author: 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 »
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Genres:
- History >> Asia >> India
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Customs & Traditions
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
- Nonfiction >> Women's Studies >> History
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> Death