Sati: a historical anthology

I. Sati in ancient and medieval India

1. Extracts on Sati from Hindu texts

2. Classical and medieval accounts

II. Early modern and colonial accounts

3. Early modern travellers

4. eighteenth century

5. nineteenth century

III. Debating abolition (1805-30)

6. Missionaries and philanthropists

7. Official debate

8. Indian opinions

IV. Sati in the princely states

9. Accounts

10. Official policy

11. Indian responses

V. Sati in the era of nationalism

12. Barh Sati, 1927

13. British ideas

14. Indian attitudes

VI. Literary representations

15. Early modern and eighteenth-century fiction

16. Early nineteenth-century fiction

17. Raj fiction

18. Indian fiction

VII. Sati in contemporary India, Roop Kanwar, and beyond

19. Roop Kanwar

20. Charan Shah

21. Secondary sources.