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Sovereignty and Social Reform in India: British Colonialism and the Campaign against Sati, 1830-1860 book cover

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Sovereignty and Social Reform in India British Colonialism and the Campaign against Sati, 1830-1860

By Andrea Major Copyright 2011
160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company officials engaged in a debate with the Indian rulers of the Rajput and Maratha princely states of North West India about the prohibition and suppression... Read more

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 

Biography

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.

"This study is an important addition to the literature on the British-Indian encounter with sati in the Indian princely states, especially Rajasthan, which has been a neglected topic.  It will be of much interest to those who would like to explore further the historical context in which incidents in contemporary India might be better understood, such as the self-immolation of the eighteen-year-old Roop Kanwar in Deorala, Rajasthan in 1987."

Sudipta Sen, University of California, Davis

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