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Sovereignty and Social Reform in India - British colonialism and the campaign against sati, 1830-60 (Paperback)
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Sovereignty and Social Reform in India - British colonialism and the campaign against sati, 1830-60 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow
immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of
colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however,
as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company officials
engaged in a debate with the Indian rulers of the Rajput and
Maratha princely states of North West India about the prohibition
and suppression of sati in their territories. This book examines
the debates that brought about legislation in these areas, arguing
that they were instrumental in setting the terms of post-colonial
debates about sati, and more generally, in defining the parameters
of British involvement in Indian social and religious issues. This
book provides a reinterpretation of the major themes of
sovereignty, authority and social reform in colonial South Asian
history by examining the shifting pragmatic, political, moral and
ideological forces which underpinned British policies on and
attitudes to sati. The author illuminates the complex ways in which
East India Company officials negotiated the limits of their own
authority in India, their conceptions of nature and the extent of
Indian princely sovereignty, and argues that and the so-called
'civilising mission' was often dependent on local circumstances and
political expediencies rather than overarching imperial principles;
the book also evaluates Indian responses to the supposed
modernising Enlightenment discourse. This book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of South Asian history as well as
British colonial studies.
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