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The practice of sati was emulated by those seeking to achieve high status of the royalty and the warriors as part of the process of Sanskritisation, [23] but its spread was also related to the centuries of Islamic invasion and its expansion in South Asia, [23] [43] [24] [44] and to the hardship and marginalisation that widows endured. [45] [46]
Ireland: Contraception in Ireland was made illegal in 1835 under the 1835 Criminal Law (Amendment) Act. [20] Greece: The modern Greek state and its penal system were created in the 1830s based on Bavarian laws. The system was designed by Georg Ludwig von Maurer and came into effect in 1835. Articles 303-305 addressed abortion, either performed ...
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 ...
1464: Tianshun Emperor, in his will, forbade the practice of human sacrifice for Ming emperors and princes. 1481: When king Yakshamalla of Nepal died, one of his wives refused to become sati, while other was burned. [13] 1490s: Al-Suyuti mentions of practice of substitute sacrifice in kingdom of Gobir which involved sick people killing others. [20]
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.
This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .
Sati (Hindu goddess), Shiva's first wife, and after her death, reincarnated as Shiva's next wife, Parvati; Sati (Buddhism), awareness or skillful attentiveness in Buddhism; Sati (practice), historical Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself after her husband's death, usually on her husband's funeral pyre; Satis (goddess) or Sati, an ...
An Irish landlord reduced to begging for rent in an 1880 caricature Alternative legal systems began to be used by Irish nationalist organizations during the 1760s as a means of opposing British rule in Ireland. Groups which enforced different laws included the Whiteboys, Repeal Association, Ribbonmen, Irish National Land League, Irish National League, United Irish League, Sinn Féin, and the ...