Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:16:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: sumathy-AT-wsu.edu (Sumathy Sivamohan)
Subject: Re: postcolonial-digest V2 #717


To Amit Ghosh,

You wrote:
"In the subaltern article of Spivak, her point is that sati (or suttee) is
a practice that should not have been stopped by the English because it was
Indian superstition with deeper meanings. Gayatri C.S. pontificates that
she would have rather had the Hindu society decide on the demise of this
custom"

Good Heavens,
what in the world makes you think this ( the above)  is what GS means?
Are you sure you read the same article by the same writer?

secondly, the British did not give anything.  We  learnt the "bloody" language.


sumathy




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