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
David Arnold is Professor Emeritus of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India and Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity.
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