Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part One. The Spectacle of Fire
1. Burning Issues 
2. Colonial Necro-Politics and the Polysemic Corpse

Part Two. Questing Fire
3. The City and Its Dead
4. Consuming Fire
5. The Global Dead

Part Three. The Fire Triumphant
6. The Rebirth of Cremation
7. Cremation and the Nation
Epilogue: Rethinking the Hindu Pyre

A Note on Weights and Currency
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

David Arnold is Professor Emeritus of Asian and Global History at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India and Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India’s Modernity.