India's cries to British humanity, relative to the suttee, infanticide, British connexion with idolatry, ghaut murders, and slavery in India; : to which is added humane hints for the melioration of the state of society in British India. / By J. Peggs.

  • Peggs, James, 1793-1850.
Date:
1830
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Credit: India's cries to British humanity, relative to the suttee, infanticide, British connexion with idolatry, ghaut murders, and slavery in India; : to which is added humane hints for the melioration of the state of society in British India. / By J. Peggs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. BOOK. I. SUTTEES. CHAP. I. P»RP. Origin—nature—number—cause of principal prevalence in Bengal—and atrocity of Suttees ------ 1 CHAP. II. Remarks on the nature of the practice of Suttee, and on the causes that occasion its perpetration, or preveut its sup- pression ... ....... 20 CHAP. III. The rite of Suttee not enjoined by the most authoritative of the Hindoo legislators, and opposed to their views of emi- nent virtue. Force forbidden by the shastras, yet fre- quently employed 29 CHAP. IV. Review of a pamphlet in Bengalee on the burning of Hindoo widows, written by a Pundit 34 CHAP. V. The present partial interference of the British Government tends to promote the celebrity and supposed legality of Suttees _ gj CHAP. VI. Authorities to confirm the propriety, safety, facility, and suc- cess of efforts for the suppression of Suttees (52