Burning the Dead: Hindu Nationhood and the Global Construction of Indian Tradition

by David Arnold

Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the so-called traditional practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially refashioned under British rule, following intense Western hostility, colonial sanitary acceptance,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520379349
• ISBN13: 9780520379343
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"