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Sati or suttee was a historical practice among some Hindu elites in which a widow, in theory voluntarily, was burnt alive by being placed on top of her deceased husband's funeral pyre. [1] It has been linked to related Hindu practice in regions of the Indian subcontinent .
Source: [11] A regulation for declaring the practice of sati, or of burning or burying alive the widows of Hindus, illegal, and punishable by the criminal courts, passed by the governor-general in council on 4 December 1829, corresponding with the 20th Aughun 1236 Bengal era; the 23rd Aughun 1237 Fasli; the 21st Aughun 1237 Vilayati; the 8th Aughun 1886 Samavat; and the 6th Jamadi-us-Sani 1245 ...
Some Hindu groups practiced Sati (also known as suttee). Sati is the act of volunteered self immolation of a widow of the deceased husband with his corpse or remains. This involves volunteering oneself (and generally being in state of samadhi [11]) to be burnt alive on the pyre with the remains of her husband for higher state of life. [12]
1 The Extent to which suttee was practiced. 2 comments. 2 Parallel in Scandinavia? 2 comments. 3 Yalla Bhatt's Yallajeeyam. 3 comments. 4 Devanagari. 1 comment. 5 ...
Every so often we hear horrifying stories of modern day cannibalism. In 2012, a naked man attacked and ate the face of a homeless man in Miami.That same year, a Brazilian trio killed a woman and ...
The Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48 in British India under East India Company rule were a series of legal acts that outlawed thugee—a practice in North and Central India involving robbery and ritualized murder and mutilation on highways—and dacoity, a form of banditry prevalent in the same region, and prescribed punishment ...
The dowry system in India is another reason that is given for female infanticide. Although India has taken steps to abolish the dowry system, [61] the practice persists. Still female infanticide and gender-selective abortion is attributed to the fear of being unable to raise a suitable dowry and then being socially ostracised. [62]
The Thuggee were believed to practice their killings as a form of worship toward the goddess Kali. [4] For centuries, the authorities of the Indian subcontinent , such as the Khalji dynasty , [ 5 ] the Mughal Empire , [ 1 ] and the British Raj , attempted to curtail the criminal activities of the Thuggee during their rules.