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Sati - Widow Burning in India

Pocket • 1992 • Engelsk

Sati - Widow Burning in India

Av Sakuntala Narasimhan

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Bombay journalist Narasimhan here offers an unnerving, carefully documented study of the Indian ritual whereby widows bring glory on themselves and their families by self-immolation on the pyres of their dead husbands. According to the author, the Hindi scriptures, which evolved from the second millennium B.C. to the second millennium A.D., sometimes suggest or sanction sati but this endorsement is equivocal. She further illustrates how, throughout Indian history, sati rituals must be seen as p...Vis mer

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ISBN

9780385423175

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1992

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Engelsk

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Sati - Widow Burning in India

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Pocket

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