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Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse


Meenakshi is a meticulous professional historian, she quotes all the relevant sources, with descriptions of Sati from the ancient through the medieval to the modern period. She adds the full text of the relevant British and Republican laws and of Lord Wiliam Bentinck’s Minute on Sati (1829), that led to the prohibition on Sati. This book makes the whole array of primary sources readily accessible, so from now on, it will be an indispensible reference for all debates on Sati.

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Meenakshi Jain

This is not a work on sati per se. Its primary focus is the colonial debate on sati, particularly the role of Evangelicals and Baptist missionaries. It argues that sati was an exceptional act, performed by a miniscule number of Hindu widows over the centuries. It occurrence was, however, exaggerated in the nineteenth century by Evangelicals and Baptist missionaries eager to Anglicize and Christianize India.

Weight 0.800 kg
Dimensions 8.7 × 6 × 2.5 in

AUTHOR: Meenakshi Jain
PUBLISHER: Aryan Books International
LANGUAGE: English
ISBN: 9788173055522
COVER: HB
WEIGHT: 800 GMS
Pages: 464

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