Institutions, Beliefs, Ideologies-Widow Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan

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Kumkum Sangari

Sudesh Vaid

Vol. 26, Issue No. 17, 27 Apr, 1991

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Review of Women's Studies

Kumkum Sangari

Sudesh Vaid

Vol. 26, Issue No. 17, 27 Apr, 1991

Institutions, Beliefs, Ideologies-Widow Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan

Vol. 26, Issue No. 17, 27 Apr, 1991

Review of Women's Studies

Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid

Widow Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan Sudesh Vaid Kumkum Sangari It is time to move away from the popular paradigm of the wickednesses of widow immolation and the innocence of 'blind faith' and popular belief Instead we need to explore a different set of questions.

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