A Sourcebook of Modern Hinduism (London: Curzon

For discussions of American transcendentalism in the nineteenth century with reference to India, see Arthur Christy,

The Orient in American Transcendentalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1932) and Carl T. Jackson,

The Oriental Religions and American Thought: Nineteenth-century Explorations (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1971).

For the history of the period, see H. Kulke and D. Rothermund,

A History of India (London and New York: Routledge, 1990), and for religious movements and personalities, see Flood,

An Introduction to Hinduism,

for a brief account. A useful book on

sati

is the one edited by J. S. Hawley (ed.),

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