Religion:Criticism of Hinduism

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Criticism of Hinduism has been applied to both the historical and the current aspects of Hinduism, notably the caste system and the sati practice.

Historical background

• Dehejia, Vidya (1994), "Comment: A Broader Landscape", in Hawley, John Stratton, Sati, the Blessing and the Curse, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-507774-2 
• Sharma, Arvind (2001). Sati: Historical and Phenomenological Essays. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-81-208-0464-7. https://books.google.com/books?id=UJmWgz2mv5oC. 
• Yang, Anand A. (2008). "Whose Sati? Widow-Burning in early Nineteenth Century India". in Sarkar, Sumit. Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35269-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=GEPYbuzOwcQC&pg=PA21.