Sati

Author : Christopher Pike
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780765331373
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sati written by Christopher Pike and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I once knew this girl who thought she was God. She didn't give sight to the blind or raise the dead. She didn't even teach anything, not really, and she never told me anything I probably didn't already know. On the other hand, she didn't expect to be worshipped, nor did she ask for money. Given her high opinion of herself, some might call that a miracle. I don't know, maybe she was God. Her name was Sati and she had blonde hair and blue eyes. For all who meet her, Sati will change everything. Sati may change everything for you.

Author : Lata Mani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520921151
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contentious Traditions written by Lata Mani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that the controversy was over definitions of Hindu tradition, the place of ritual in religious worship, the civilizing missions of colonialism and evangelism, and the proper role of the colonial state. Mani radically revises colonialist as well as nationalist historiography on the social reform of women's status in the colonial period and clarifies the complex and contradictory character of missionary writings on India. The history of widow burning is one of paradox. While the chief players in the debate argued over the religious basis of sati and the fine points of scriptural interpretation, the testimonials of women at the funeral pyres consistently addressed the material hardships and societal expectations attached to widowhood. And although historiography has traditionally emphasized the colonial horror of sati, a fascinated ambivalence toward the practice suffused official discussions. The debate normalized the violence of sati and supported the misconception that it was a voluntary act of wifely devotion. Mani brilliantly illustrates how situated feminism and discourse analysis compel a rewriting of history, thus destabilizing the ways we are accustomed to look at women and men, at "tradition," custom, and modernity.

Author : Mala Sen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813531021
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death by Fire written by Mala Sen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before a crowd of several thousand people, mostly men, a young woman dressed in her bridal finery was burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre. The apparent revival of an ancient tradition opened old wounds in Indian society and focused world attention on the status and treatment of women in modern India.".

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120804647
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sati written by Arvind Sharma and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195077741
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sati, the Blessing and the Curse written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sati symbolizes ultimate loyalty and self-sacrifice. It often figures near the core of a Hindu identity that feels embattled in a modern world. Yet to those who deplore it, sati is a curse, a violation of every woman's womanhood.

Author : Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226885681
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ashes of Immortality written by Catherine Weinberger-Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least the satis themselves, this act signals the sati's sacredness and spiritual power. Ashes of Immortality attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis, Weinberger-Thomas constructs a radically new interpretation of satis. She shows that their self-immolation transcends gender, caste and class, region and history, representing for the Hindus a path to immortality.

Author : Imma Ramos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351840002
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal written by Imma Ramos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation in literature and visual culture in order to inspire patriotism amongst the indigenous population. This book will examine the process by which the Hindu goddess Sati rose to sudden prominence as a personification of the subcontinent and an icon of heroic self-sacrifice. According to a myth of cosmic dismemberment, Sati’s body parts were scattered across South Asia and enshrined as Shakti Pithas, or Seats of Power. These sacred sites were re-imagined as the fragmented body of the motherland in crisis that could provide the basis for an emergent territorial consciousness. The most potent sites were located in eastern India, Kalighat and Tarapith in Bengal, and Kamakhya in Assam. By examining Bengali and colonial responses to these temples and the ritual traditions associated with them, including Tantra and image worship, this book will provide the first comprehensive study of this ancient network of pilgrimage sites in an art historical and political context.

Author : John Stratton Hawley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360222
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sati, the Blessing and the Curse written by John Stratton Hawley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to guard her family and clan for many generations, and curses to prevent anyone from thwarting her desire to die. Sati also means blessing and curse in a broader sense. To those who revere it, sati symbolizes ultimate loyalty and self-sacrifice. It often figures near the core of a Hindu identity that feels embattled in a modern world. Yet to those who deplore it, sati is a curse, a violation of every woman's womanhood. It is murder mystified, and as such, the symbol of precisely what Hinduism should not be. In this volume a group of leading scholars consider the many meanings of sati: in India and the West; in literature, art, and opera; in religion, psychology, economics, and politics. With contributors who are both Indian and American, this is a genuinely binational, postcolonial discussion. Contributors include Karen Brown, Paul Courtright, Vidya Dehejia, Ainslie Embree, Dorothy Figueira, Lindsey Harlan, John Hawley, Robin Lewis, Ashis Nandy, and Veena Talwar Oldenburg.

Author : Andrea Major
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sati written by Andrea Major and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles; with reference to India.

Author : Rammohun Roy (Raja)
Publisher : South Asia Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sati, a Writeup of Raja Ram Mohan Roy about Burning of Widows Alive written by Rammohun Roy (Raja) and published by South Asia Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: