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'''Suttee''' is an ancient [[India|Indian]] practice, in which a widow is sacrificed on her husband's funeral pyre. It was outlawed in 1889, though it is still practiced, and more recent instances of the practice have found, where investigated, to have been carried out under complusion. | '''Suttee''' is an ancient [[India|Indian]] practice, in which a widow is sacrificed on her husband's funeral pyre. It was outlawed in 1889, though it is still practiced, and more recent instances of the practice have found, where investigated, to have been carried out under complusion. | ||
| + | *Even worse than foot binding are traditions like suttee, which at one time was practiced in India, a custom where a woman was expected to throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre after he died. Suttee no longer exists; it was abolished by the British in 1829, although according to the New Columbia Encyclopedia (1975), "isolated cases of voluntary suttee have occurred into the 20th cent." [http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/Mystics.html] | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*[[Sati]] | *[[Sati]] | ||
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[[Category:Culture]] | [[Category:Culture]] | ||
Revision as of 03:00, May 8, 2007
Suttee is an ancient Indian practice, in which a widow is sacrificed on her husband's funeral pyre. It was outlawed in 1889, though it is still practiced, and more recent instances of the practice have found, where investigated, to have been carried out under complusion.
- Even worse than foot binding are traditions like suttee, which at one time was practiced in India, a custom where a woman was expected to throw herself on her husband's funeral pyre after he died. Suttee no longer exists; it was abolished by the British in 1829, although according to the New Columbia Encyclopedia (1975), "isolated cases of voluntary suttee have occurred into the 20th cent." [1]