Major, Andrea

Sovereignty and social reform in India: British colonialism and the campaign against sati,1830-60/ Andrea Major - New York : Routledge, 2011. - 152p. : ill. ; 24cm.

Includes bibliography and index

Chivalry, sacrifice and devotion : imagining sati in Rajput society -- Princes, politics and pragmatism : the formation of British policy on sati in the princely states -- Victims, perpetrators and self-determined sacrifices : strategies for suppressing sati in the princely states.

9780415580502 (cloth : alk. paper) 0415580501 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780203841785 (ebook) 0203841786 (ebook)


Sati--History--India
Women--History--India
Social problems--History--India


Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History--Asia
India--Colonization--History
India--History

954.031 / MAJ/S