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Ceremony of Burning a Hindu Widow with the Body of her Late Husband, from Pictorial History of China and India, 1851. Following the outcry after the sati of Roop Kanwar, [142] the Government of India enacted the Rajasthan Sati Prevention Ordinance, 1987 on 1 October 1987. [143] and later passed the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987. [21]
Sati (/ ˈ s ʌ t iː /, Sanskrit: सती, IAST: Satī, lit. ' truthful' or 'virtuous ' ), also known as Dakshayani (Sanskrit: दाक्षायणी , IAST: Dākṣāyaṇī , lit. 'daughter of Daksha'), is the Hindu goddess of marital felicity and longevity, and is worshipped as an aspect of the mother goddess Shakti .
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 ...
The act was created after the sati of Roop Kanwar in 1987 and applied to all of India except for Jammu and Kashmir. The act incorporated many colonial suppositions about the practice of sati, with the first paragraph of the preamble of the Act copying the opening lines of Lord William Bentinck’s Bengal Sati Regulation , or Regulation XVII of ...
Perhaps the oldest existing Rani Sati temple outside Jhunjhunu dates to 1837 and is located at Kankurgachi in Kolkata. Hundreds of other Rani Sati temples are located in Bombay, Delhi, Varanasi, Kolkata, Hyderabad and other places in India, as well as in Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States.
Divrala is a village in the Sikar district of Rajasthan, India. Divrala is a village in the Shekhawati region. It is located near Amarsar which was the capital of Maharao Shekhaji, precursor of all Shekhawat rajputs. It is also called Deorala and Divrala. It became infamous because of the Sati incident that took place on 4 September 1987. [1]
Dharma Sabha was formed in 1830 in Calcutta by Radhakanta Deb.The organization was established mainly to counter the ongoing social reform movements led by protagonists such as Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Henry Derozio.
Sati Savitri may refer to these in Indian arts: Savitri and Satyavan, a story in the Mahabharata and its female heroine Savitri; Sati Savitri, a 1932 Hindi film; Sati Savitri (C. Pullayya film), a 1933 Telugu mythological film; Sati Savitri (H. M. Reddy film), a 1933 Telugu film; Sati Savitri, a Telugu mythological film