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Sati : a writeup of Raja Ram Mohan Roy about burning of widows alive by Rammohun Roy (Raja), Mulk Raj Anand is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This publication of Ram Mohan Roy's two conversations and other appendices is by way of a reminder to the contemporary intelligentsia that, in spite of the law forbidding Sati, the barbarous rite is still being practiced, overtly or covertly, and being glorified by some of the ignorant folk in the name of tradition, backed by the chauvinist Hindu fundamentalist, thus degrading the lofty cosmic idealism of India's 'perennial philosophy'. Ours is still dominantly a man's world, where a woman is enslaved, behind cover of Vedic rites, often sold in marriage with dowry, unable to remarry if widowed, despised for bringing forth female children, victim of paternal pride, a part of humanity's oppressed half, in a country in which the constitution has adopted universal human rights for men and women. Ram Mohan Roy, the first precursor of India's resurgence from the 'filth of Hindusm' to some purity of feeling and thought in early 19th century, is said to have written his two dialogues, between a protagonist and an antagonist Sati, from the compulsion of the shrieking out from the pyre of his sister-in-law when the flames touched her, but who was forced down by the devout with bamboo poles.

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Author

Rammohun Roy (Raja), Mulk Raj Anand

Publisher

B.R. PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9788170188988

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Essays, Journals & Letters