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Burning the Dead – Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian
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Burning the Dead – Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition Hardcover - 2021

by Arnold, David

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Univ of California Pr, 2021. Hardcover. New. 249 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.
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  • Title Burning the Dead – Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition
  • Author Arnold, David
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 268
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Univ of California Pr
  • Date 2021
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0520379349
  • ISBN 9780520379343 / 0520379349
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Indian
  • Library of Congress subjects India - Religious life and customs, Hinduism - Customs and practices
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020026923
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.538

From the rear cover

"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 Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg

About the author

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.