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Book: Hinduism in Five Minutes

Chapter: 66. Did Women have to Jump into the Fire when their Husband Died?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.41734

Blurb:

The practice of sati, whereby some Hindu wives burned on the funeral pyres of their deceased husbands, was outlawed by British authorities in 1829. Prior to that, it was always very rare and always challenged within India by Hindus who denied that it was an authentic Hindu practice.

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