The Tradition of Sati in India ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: William Bentinck: On Ritual Murder in India, 1829 India was progressively occupied by the British, through the agency of the East India Company, throughout the 18th century. The company was directed by the government. The British, unlike earlier colonizers in the Americas, decided to practice religious toleration for their new Islamic ...

SUTTEE has nothing to dow ith Hinduism!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted by Ed Viswanathan on May 29, 1998 at 07:04:57: SATI or SUTTEE is the most horrendous act of widows killing themselves jumping into the funeral pyre of their dead husbands, sometimes willfully and sometimes forcefully by others. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, SUTTEE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HINDUISM. TO SAY SATI IS PART OF HINDUISM, IS LIKE SAYING ...