... This rejection of the widow's capacity for rational agency in sati was the central parad... more ... This rejection of the widow's capacity for rational agency in sati was the central paradox of a discourse on sati which, while at one level trying to differentiate between “legal” voluntary satis and “illegal” coerced ones, was simultaneously epistemologically undermining the widows ...
This article explores British attitudes to domestic slavery in the Princely States of Rajputana a... more This article explores British attitudes to domestic slavery in the Princely States of Rajputana and Malwa in the nineteenth-century. Working primarily from colonial archives, it analyses British conceptions of the nature of slavery and slave-trading in Rajputana, making compari-sons between this and their perception of slavery in its wider Indian and transatlantic contexts in order to analyse British understandings of
... This rejection of the widow's capacity for rational agency in sati was the central parad... more ... This rejection of the widow's capacity for rational agency in sati was the central paradox of a discourse on sati which, while at one level trying to differentiate between “legal” voluntary satis and “illegal” coerced ones, was simultaneously epistemologically undermining the widows ...
This article explores British attitudes to domestic slavery in the Princely States of Rajputana a... more This article explores British attitudes to domestic slavery in the Princely States of Rajputana and Malwa in the nineteenth-century. Working primarily from colonial archives, it analyses British conceptions of the nature of slavery and slave-trading in Rajputana, making compari-sons between this and their perception of slavery in its wider Indian and transatlantic contexts in order to analyse British understandings of
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