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Immolating Women: A Global History of Widow Burning from Ancient Times to the Present / translated from the German by Rekha Kamath Rajan
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TextPublication details: Delhi Permanent Black 2005Description: x+610pISBN: - 817824134X
- 305.489654 F528
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In this book, sati is for the first time studied in a global context. It is seen as one among many manifestations of aritualized and public act of `following into death. The decisive feature is not the manner of dying but the function and the intent; that is accompanying a dead person in to the hereafter.
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In this book, sati is for the first time studied in a global context. It is seen as one among many manifestations of aritualized and public act of `following into death. The decisive feature is not the manner of dying but the function and the intent; that is accompanying a dead person in to the hereafter.
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