First published in Home Circle in 1849, Agnes Strickland’s Candava; or, The Last Suttee is a dramatic tale of sati, empire, Christian reform, and British intervention in India. This new edition restores the forgotten story with historical context, tracing changing British attitudes from Orientalist fascination to evangelical reform. Strickland’s melodrama culminates in the rescue of an unwilling Indian widow, raising difficult questions about coercion, imperial authority, humanitarianism, and nineteenth-century print culture for modern readers today.