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

Meenakshi Jain

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After making history with her book on the Ayodhya controversy, Rama and Ayodhya (2013), Prof. Meenakshi Jain adds to her reputation with the present hefty volume Sati. Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse (Aryan Books International, Delhi 2016). In it, as 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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 490 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:: Aryan Books International

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 8173055521

ISBN13:: 9788173055522

kindle Asin:: 8173055521

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

Meenakshi Jain

4.55/5 (48 ratings)

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After making history with her book on the Ayodhya controversy, Rama and Ayodhya (2013), Prof. Meenakshi Jain adds to her reputation with the present hefty volume Sati. Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse (Aryan Books International, Delhi 2016). In it, as 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.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 490 pages

Publication:: 2016

Publisher:: Aryan Books International

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 8173055521

ISBN13:: 9788173055522

kindle Asin:: 8173055521

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