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Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part One. The Spectacle of Fire
1. Burning Issues
2. Colonial Necro-Politics and the Polysemic Corpse

Part Two. Questing Fire
3. The City and Its Dead
4. Consuming Fire
5. The Global Dead

Part Three. The Fire Triumphant
6. The Rebirth of Cremation
7. Cremation and the Nation
Epilogue: Rethinking the Hindu Pyre

A Note on Weights and Currency
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Burning the Dead Hindu Nationhood and the Global

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 02/02/2021
    ISBN13: 9780520379343, 978-0520379343
    ISBN10: 0520379349

    Description

    Book Synopsis


    Table of Contents
    List of Figures and Tables
    Preface
    Acknowledgments

    Part One. The Spectacle of Fire
    1. Burning Issues
    2. Colonial Necro-Politics and the Polysemic Corpse

    Part Two. Questing Fire
    3. The City and Its Dead
    4. Consuming Fire
    5. The Global Dead

    Part Three. The Fire Triumphant
    6. The Rebirth of Cremation
    7. Cremation and the Nation
    Epilogue: Rethinking the Hindu Pyre

    A Note on Weights and Currency
    List of Abbreviations
    Glossary
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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