Title Contentious traditions : the debate on Sati in colonial India / Lata Mani.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
	©1998

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.
Contents	Equivocations in the name of tradition: the official debate on widow burning -- Abstract disquisitions: Bhadralok and the normative violence of sati -- Missionaries and subalterns: belaboring tradition in the marketplace -- Traveling texts: the consolidation of missionary discourse on India -- The female subject, the colonial gaze: eyewitness accounts of sati -- Afterword -- Glossary.
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Subject	Sati.
	Sati.
	Widows -- India.
	Widows.
	India.
	India -- Civilization.
	Civilization.
	India -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	India -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	19th century
	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Title	Debate on sati in colonial India, 1780-1833
Other Form:	Print version: Mani, Lata, 1956- Contentious traditions. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998 0520214064 (DLC) 98021003 (OCoLC)38948428
ISBN	9780520921153 (electronic book)
	0520921151 (electronic book)
	0585255660 (electronic book)
	9780585255668 (electronic book)
	0520214064 (alkaline paper)
	9780520214064 (alkaline paper)
	0520214072 (alkaline paper)
	9780520214071 (alkaline paper)