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Westerners have long doubted whether the practice was ever actually voluntary
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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 by the colonial British in 1889, though it is still practiced. Westerners have long doubted whether the practice was ever actually voluntary (compare [[Honor killing]]). 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]
*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]