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Courtly text and courting Sati Sati as Voluntary Sati as a positive construct Textual warrant: Resurrecting an eighteenth-century Sanskrit text Two voices framing Sati: Julia Leslie and Mary Daly Liberating texts: Roop Kanwar's Sati from Srivaisnava and other textual practices Liberating female texts and voices Concluding remarks Conclusion Replicating Orientalist constructions New Orientalists: Fashioning a monolith Hinduism Textualizing Hinduism Politicizing Hinduism Reframing Hinduism and forging an identity References Index

it has remained a classic up to modern times

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