Ashes of Immortality
Subtitle: Widow-Burning in India
Contributors: Jeffrey Mehlman (Translator); David Gordon White (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780226885698
Subjects: Anthropology; Hinduism; History of religion; Religious rites & ceremonies; Religion; Archaeology / Anthropology; Indian sub-continent; Anthropology - Cultural; Death & Dying; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Sociology of Religion; Hinduism - General; India; Legal statutes, laws, etc; Legal statutes, laws, etc; Sati; Widow suicide; Widows
First sentence: It is in outer India, on the most distant marches of Hinduism, that the scene paradoxically will be set-a macabre yet dazzling scene to which the reader shall have to adjust his vision and above all his sensitivity if he is to follow us in our exploration of a cultural enigma in which blinding darkness merges with blinding light.