Sati Issues Society and Culture India

Includes a number of drawings by the Flemish artist Baltazard Solvyns from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, together with extracts from European accounts.

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• Burning Widows Alive - An imaginary essay on the practice of widows being burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyres.
• 'Horror of Sati' or Tyranny of the Elect? - On the lack of true dialogue or discussion sati on the issues traditions behind sati and related issues.
• Sati (practice) - Wikipedia - Article and a collection of references.
• Kamat: The Tradition of Sati in India - Sati is the traditional Hindu practice of a sati widow issues immolating herself on her husband\'s funeral sati pyre.
• Women In The Sacred Laws - The Later Law Books - An extract from a work by Shakuntala Rao issues Shastri. Includes early history of the practice, and issues the way that the treatment of sati came issues to differ from treatment of other forms of issues suicide.
• Sati - Burning of the Hindu widow - Describes the history of this practice, the origins, sati and recent sati history.
• The Representation of Sati - Includes a number of drawings by the Flemish society and culture artist Baltazard Solvyns from the eighteenth and nineteenth society and culture centuries, together with extracts from European accounts.

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