Trial by fire: a report on Roop Kanwar's death - Bombay Union of...
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Report of a three-member team on the burning of Roop Kanwar on the funeral pyre of her husband on Sept. 4, 1987, in Deorala Village of Rajasthan.
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Title, Trial by Fire: A Report on Roop Kanwar's Death. Contributors, Padma Prakash, Pamela Phillipase, Teesta Setalwad. Publisher, Bombay Union of ...
Holiness: Past and Present - Google Books
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Stephen Barton has commissioned social scientists, philosophers of religion, feminists, biblical scholars, historians, moral theologians and systematic...
Imagining Hinduism: A Postcolonial Perspective - Sharada...
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Imagining Hinduism examines how Hinduism has been defined, interpreted and manufactured through Western categorizations, from the foreign interventions of...
Moral Disagreements: Classic and Contemporary Readings - Google Books
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Can moral disagreements be rationally resolved? Can universal human rights be defended in face of moral disagreements? The problem of moral disagreement is one...
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Roop Kanwar said quietly, 'Please do the parikrama.' The women lined up and performed a ritual circumambulation around the body, still singing funeral songs.
Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call to Judgment -...
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Though a directive principle of the constitution, a uniform civil code of law has never been written or instituted in India. As a result, in matters of...
Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women - Google Books
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The considerable interest currently being expressed in women and religion has thrown down an important challenge; the need to see women not merely as the...
Sati, the Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India -...
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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...
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Malise Ruthven tackles the polemic and stereotypes surrounding this complex phenomenon - one that eludes sim today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the...
Muscular Nationalism: Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and...
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A particular dark triumph of modern nationalism has been its ability to persuade citizens to sacrifice their lives for a political vision forged by emotional...
Sovereignty and Social Reform in India: British Colonialism and the...
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Roop Kanwar had been married for just eight months when her husband, Mal Singh, died suddenly. Within hours she too was dead and thousands of onlookers ...
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This book examines how the women's movement is affecting traditional religions and civilizations throughout the world. It reviews cases of global impact in...
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THE ROOP KANWAR SATI Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old Rajput girl of village Deorala in Sikar district was forced to immolate herself on her husband's funeral ...
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In 1987, a young woman, Roop Kanwar, was burnt alive in Deorala, in Rajasthan . She was said to have committed 'sati', that is, taken her own life because her ...
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... 6, 14, 17, 21 and low sense of well-being, 14 Roop Kanwar, 1–3, 19, 20 and thin minimalism, 7–8 and theories of recognition, 10–11, 13– 14 selfhood, 14–15, ...
Fundamentalism: The Search For Meaning - Malise Ruthven - Google Books
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Since the end of the Cold War fundamentalism has been seen as the major threat to world peace and prosperity, a concern that was exacerbated by the events of...
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Along the road dozens of little souvenir shops had sprung up, offering grotesque color photo montages of Roop Kanwar supposedly burning on her husband's ...
Suicide as a Dramatic Performance - Google Books
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Each suicide is as unique as the individuals involved, especially if one examines the nature of the act and to what extent these acts can be viewed as a...
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Ten Who Was Roop Kanwar? Sati, Law, Religion, and Postcolonial Feminism Paul B. Courtright and Namita Gosmami Who was Roop Kanwar? Who was she to ...
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Who was Roop Kanwar?: The Subject in Question in Contemporary Feminist Theory. Front Cover. Namita Goswami. UMI, Feminist theory pages.
Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader - David Arnold,...
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Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.
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Title, Who was Roop Kanwar?: The Subject in Question in Contemporary Feminist Theory. Author, Namita Goswami. Edition, reprint. Publisher, UMI,
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