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The Roop Kanwar Case: Feminist Responses
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Abstract
On September 5, 1987, in Jaipur, Bal Singh Rathore and Sneh Kanwar discovered that their eighteen-year-old daughter Roop Kanwar—married only eight months before—had suddenly been widowed and then cremated along with the corpse of her husband in the manner of a sati in the village of Deorala, a two-hour drive away. They read this piece of information in the local Hindi language daily; they had not been informed either of the death of their son-in-law in a hospital in the district headquarters in Sikar, nor of their daughter’s wish to die asa sati on her husband’s funeral pyre. They were later persuaded by Roop Kanwar’s in-laws that their daughter had, over efforts to dissuade her, chosen this way to die.
Title: The Roop Kanwar Case: Feminist Responses
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Abstract
On September 5, 1987, in Jaipur, Bal Singh Rathore and Sneh Kanwar discovered that their eighteen-year-old daughter Roop Kanwar—married only eight months before—had suddenly been widowed and then cremated along with the corpse of her husband in the manner of a sati in the village of Deorala, a two-hour drive away.
They read this piece of information in the local Hindi language daily; they had not been informed either of the death of their son-in-law in a hospital in the district headquarters in Sikar, nor of their daughter’s wish to die asa sati on her husband’s funeral pyre.
They were later persuaded by Roop Kanwar’s in-laws that their daughter had, over efforts to dissuade her, chosen this way to die.
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