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David Arnold

Burning the Dead

Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition

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A magisterial piece of work. David Arnold spins an amazing tale of death, ritual, commemoration, and nation-building in which the Raj is the center of the modern death cosmos as well as the universal exemplar of cremation practice in a global context.—Antoinette Burton, author of The Trouble with Empire A global history of South Asian cremation practices, Burning the Dead demonstrates the extent to which the corpse straddles the complicated regulatory and religious spaces between the personal, the familial, and the state, contributing to debates about biopolitics and necropolitics in colonial India.—Kama Maclean, Professor of History, South A… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-520-37934-3
  • EAN: 9780520379343
  • Produktnummer: 34865664
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 268 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm
  • Abbildungen: 18 b-w photographs

Über den Autor


David Arnold is Professor Emeritus of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India and Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity.  

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