Revival: Suttee (1928)
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Revival: Suttee (1928)

A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry Into the Hindu Rite of Widow-Burning

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Revival: Suttee (1928)

A Historical and Philosophical Enquiry Into the Hindu Rite of Widow-Burning

About this book

I suppose the impulse to write this book dates back to my shame and anger in India when men and women of my own race extolled suttee, and the amazement with which I first saw the memorials of Hindu kings, with the sati's couching forms.

But the impulse was slight, and would have slept but for a publisher's interest. Messrs. Allen & Unwin passed on to me questions asked about suttee by their reader when reporting on my share in Three Eastern Plays. Receiving my reply, they suggested that I should right on this subject.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138552647
eBook ISBN
9781351343589
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia asiática

Index

Abolition of Suttee, 78. See Bentinck, Lord William
Abul Fazl, 8
Acts, Reference to Book of, 80
Admetus, 7 ff.
Afghanistan, War with, 135 ff.
Āgunkhākī (name for Satī), 74
Ahalya Bai, 59
Ahmadnagar, 85 ff., 109
Ain-i-Akbari, 8
Aitchison, C. U., 83, 86 ff., 103
Ajit Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur, 35
Ajmer, 111
Akbar, 8, 46 ff., 50, 57
Albuquerque, 57
Alcestis, 7 ff.
Alexander the Great, 19, 28, 37
Allahabad, 39, 118 ff.
Allah-ud-din, 34
Aluwa, 118
Alwar, 110 ff.
Amar Das, 57
Amen-Hetep II, 25
American Indians, 25
Amherst, Lord, 70, 75, 77
Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots, 122
Angria's Kolaba, 87 ff., 121
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, 10, 20, 35, 46, 67, 106
Anugamana. See Anumaraṇa, 15 ff., 66, 71
Army, Suttee in Indian, 77
Aryans, 16 ff., 24
Asiatic Journal, 41, 103
Assam, 83
Astrakhan, 38
Atharva-Veda, 18
Attari, 100
Auckland, Lord, 105
Aztecs, 135
Balder, 24
Balfour. See Cyclopœdia of India
Bali, 41, 127
Bandelkhand, 62
Bangalore, 152
Bankura, 31
Bareilly, 71
Baroda, 82, 88 ff., 118
Bathie, Francis, 79 ff.
Begun, 117
Benares, 43, 71
Bengal and Bengalis, 29, 31, 36, 40, 50 ff., 54, 68 ff., 72 ff., 77 ff., 107, 118 ff., 131 ff.
Bentinck, Lord William Cavendish-, 58, 75 ff., 82, 109, 120 ff., 134
Bhadurwah, 88
Bharatpur (Bhurtpur), 62, 115
Bhils, 85
Bhim Singh, 104
Bhinai Raja, 111
Bhopal, 115
Bhuj, 55
Bihar, 26, 120. See Gaya, Patna
Bikanir, 30, 45, 47, 110, 138, 144
Bilaspur, 103
Bombay Courier, 85 ff.
Bombay Gazette, 121
Bombay,...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Original Title
  6. Original Copyright
  7. PREFACE
  8. Contents
  9. ILLUSTRATIONS
  10. I. ORIGIN OF SUTTEE
  11. II. PREVALENCE AND AREA OF THE RITE : SUTTEE MEMORIALS
  12. III. THE FORM THAT SUTTEE TOOK
  13. IV. REASONS FOR SUTTEE
  14. V. WAS SUTTEE VOLUNTARY?
  15. VI. ATTEMPTS AT PROHIBITION : LAST YEARS OF LEGAL SUTTEE IN BRITISH INDIA
  16. VII. PROHIBITION IN BRITISH INDIA
  17. VIII. THE SUPPRESSION OF SUTTEE IN NATIVE STATES
  18. IX. ILLEGAL SUTTEE
  19. X. LEGAL SUTTEE TO-DAY
  20. XI. CONCLUDING CONSIDERATIONS
  21. APPENDIX : SOME ACCOUNTS OF SUTTEE
  22. INDEX

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