Contentious Traditions The Debate on Sati in Colonial India

Name: Contentious Traditions The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
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ISBN: 9780520214071

ISBN-10: 0520214072

ISBN-13: 9780520214071

Edition: 1999

Authors: Lata Mani

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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 Hindu tradition, the place of ritual in religious worship, the civilizing missions of colonialism and evangelism, and the proper role of the colonial state. Mani radically revises colonialist as well as nationalist historiography on the social reform of women's status in the colonial period and clarifies the complex and contradictory character of missionary…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 259
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index