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SATI PRATHA -THE PRACTICE AND THE PROPAGANDA
FRIDAY, 11 MARCH 7 PM IST
Padma Shri Dr Meenakshi Jain is a noted historian of medieval and colonial India. She is a former Associate Professor of history at Gargi College, University of Delhi. Her deeply researched books have dealt with historical issues of national importance: Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples, The Battle for Rama: Case of the temple at Ayodhya, Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries and the changing Colonial Discourse, Rama and Ayodhya, Parallel Pathways: Essays on Hindu–Muslim Relations (1707-1857). She also co-edited The India They Saw: Foreign accounts of India from the 8th to mid-19th century.
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