Keyword: India
Hindu Infanticide: An Account of the Measures Adopted for Suppressing the Practice of the Systematic Murder by Their Parents of Female Infants; with Incidental Remarks on Other Customs Peculiar to the Natives of India
London: Johnson, 1811.
Satī, from a Sūz u Gudāz manuscript. The union of the couple on the pyre (1657)
from: Sūz u Gudāz ms, Iran, Walters Manuscript W. 649, fol. 19b (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
the young Hindu woman accompanies her bridegroom's coffin to the funeral pyre and decides to commit sati (1657)
from: Walters manuscript W.649 (Burning and Melting)
The Walters Art Museum
Sati: A Nineteenth Century Tale of Women, Violence and Protest
in: At the Edge of Psychology: Essays in Politics and Culture, pp.
Delhi: -, 1980.
Robert de Nobili, L’Apôtre des Brahmes, Première apologie
Paris: Bibliothèque des Missions, 1931.
Informatio de quibusdam moribus nationis indicae
Palayamkottai: De Nobili Research Institute, 1972.
Narratio Fundamentorum quibus Madurensis Missionis Institutum caeptum est et hucusque consistit
Palayamkottai: De Nobili Research Institute, 1971.
Tūṣaṇat tikkāram
Tūttukkuṭi: Tamiḻ Ilakkiya kaḻakam, 1964.
Through Fire: Creative Aspects of Sacrificial Rituals in the Vedic-Hindu Continuum
in: Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity, pp. 109-131
Leiden: Brill, 2017.
The building for King Dasaratha's sacrifice (Mughal India) (1594)
from: Miniature (35.4 x 21cm), fol. 27r
Christie's, London
An Eighteenth-Century Account of Sati: John Zephaniah Holwell's ‘Religious Tenets of the Gentoos’ and ‘Voluntary Sacrifice’ (1767)
in: South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, v. 40 (2017), issue 1: pp.24-39.
Bringing the Gods to Mind. Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice
Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 2005.
Manner in which the Women in India Burn (1728)
from: Picart, B. Ceremonies et Coutumes Religieuses des Peuples Idolatres, tome II, Amsterdam, 1728
London, Wellcome Collection