Sati: A Historical Anthology Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Preface     xii
Introduction     xv
Sati in Ancient and Medieval India     1
Extracts on Sati from Hindu Texts     3
Rg Veda     3
The Institutes of Vishnu     3
Vedavyasasmriti     4
Angirasa     4
The Kadambari of Bana     5
Mahanirvana Tantra     5
Harita     6
The Ramayana of Valmiki     6
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa     8
Classical and Medieval Accounts     11
Early Greek Account     11
Harsacarita of Bana     12
The Travels of Ibn Battuta     20
Duarte Barbosa     22
Early Modern and Colonial Accounts     27
Early Modern Travellers     29
Francois Bernier     29
Nicollao Manucci     36
Albert de Mandelslo     39
Francisco Pelsaert     42
The Eighteenth Century     44
John Zephaniah Holwell     44
Durlabh Ram     51
Eliza Fay     53
Tryambakayajvan     54
The Nineteenth Century     62
TheTimes, 'Interesting Account of A Suttee'     62
The Times, 'Suttee'     65
Fanny Parks     67
Debating Abolition (1805-30)     73
Missionaries and Philanthropists     75
Charles Grant     75
Reverend William Ward     78
Friend of India     86
Official Debate     97
Parliamentary Papers     97
William Ewer     99
William Bentinck     102
Regulation against Sati     115
Indian Opinions     119
Raja Rammohan Roy     119
Congratulatory Address     144
Petition of the Orthodox Community against the Sati Regulation     147
Sati in the Princely States     153
Accounts     155
James Tod     155
Sati at Edur     163
Sati in Ahmednuggar     164
Death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh     167
Official Policy     172
East India Company Board of Control     172
Major Thoresby     175
Lt. Col. Sir Henry Lawrence     176
Henry Bushby     178
Indian Responses     195
Jaipur     195
Bundi      196
Kota     198
Sati in the Era of Nationalism     201
The Barh Sati, 1927     203
Police Report     203
Amrita Bazar Patrika     207
Judgment of Chief Justice Courtney Terrell     210
Searchlight, 'The Sati Case'     219
Stri Dharma, 'Sati'     225
British Ideas     227
The Times, 'The Abolition of Suttee'     227
Edward Thompson, Suttee     228
Indian Attitudes     239
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya     239
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi     239
Ananda Coomaraswamy     242
A.S. Altekar     263
Literary Representations     289
Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Fiction     291
Dryden, Aureng-Zebe     291
Starke, The Widow of Malabar     293
Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction     295
'The Suttee'     295
'The Suttee'-A Poem     299
Derozio, 'On the Abolition of Suttee'     305
Raj Fiction     309
Kipling, 'The Last Suttee' (Poem)     309
Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days     312
Kaye, The Far Pavilions      321
Indian Fiction     337
The Modern Review, 'The Suttee'     337
Naidu, 'The Suttee'     352
Sati in Contemporary India, Roop Kanwar, and Beyond     353
Roop Kanwar     355
Manushi, 'The Burning of Roop Kanwar'     355
Hinduism Today, 'Uproar over Rajput Sati'     372
Oldenburg, 'The Roop Kanwar Case: Feminist Responses'     375
Nandy, 'Sati in Kali Yuga'     408
Charan Shah     432
Manushi, 'Deadly Laws and Zealous Reformers'     432
Secondary Sources     452
Thapar, 'In History'     452