Colonial photographic albums contained pictures of high-caste respectable ladies or rural, vulnerable, malnourished women from the ... survey of photography in Bengal, argues that to add a visual ...

Sati’ has a complex history and was woven into the fabric of society differently across various Indian regions, but ...

A woman called Veeramma ... Sati’s occurrence varied from region to region and often caste to caste. Bengal in the colonial period saw the highest numbers—hundreds every year in the official ...