Equivocations in the name of tradition: the official debate on widow burning -- Abstract disquisitions: Bhadralok and the normative violence of sati -- Missionaries and subalterns: belaboring tradition in the marketplace -- Traveling texts: the consolidation of missionary discourse on India -- The female subject, the colonial gaze: eyewitness accounts of sati -- Afterword -- Glossary
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