Sovereignty and Social Reform in India: British Colonialism and the Campaign Against Sati, 1830-60

ISBN-13: 9780415580502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 160 str.

Andrea Major

Opis

This book offers an important reinterpretation of major themes of sovereignty, authority & social reform in colonial South Asian history. Focusing on the British prohibition of sati in 1829, the author shows how the debates that preceded this legislation have been instrumental in setting the terms of post-colonial debates.

Spis treści

1. Chivalry, Sacrifice and Devotion: Imagining Sati in Rajput Society 2. Princes, Politics and Pragmatism: The Formation of British Policy on Sati in the Princely States 3. Victims, Perpetrators and Self-Determined Sacrifices: Strategies for Suppressing Sati in the Princely States 

O autorze

Andrea Major is Lecturer in Wider World History at the University of Leeds. She is author of Pious Flames: European Encounters with Sati, 1500-1830 and editor of Sati: A Historical Anthology.