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It's called Sati. Sati has been abolished in India. It is a punishable offence to force someone into it or just witness it without trying to prevent it.

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Sati system was the practice which was done till nineteenth century but was abolished under the colonial rule in India in1829. Raja Ram Mohan Roy played a major in this.

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Sati; very rarely

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Sati; very rarely

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Sati; very rarely

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