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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
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