Download or read book Pious Flames written by Andrea Major and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring the interconnections between the iconic images and the observers' own preconceptions, Pious Flames traces the changing nature of western responses to sati over three and a half centuries. It situates such responses in the context of the ongoing domestic debates about women, religion, suicide, insanity, and the treatment of the human body."--BOOK JACKET.