Sovereignty and Social Reform in India: British Colonialism and the Campaign Against Sati, 1830-1860 (Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series)

by Andrea Major (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $148.94

  Focusing on the British prohibition of sati in 1829, the author shows how the debates that preceded this legislation have effectively set the terms of post-colonial debates about sati, as well as more generally defining the parameters of British involvement in Indian social and religious issues.