Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India by Pompa Banerjee

Burning Women: Widows, Witches, and Early Modern European Travelers in India

Pompa Banerjee

288 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

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In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widowburning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European...

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