The practice of Suttee, where widows were expected to immolate themselves on their husband's funeral pyre, was abolished in India by the British in 1829. The ban was enforced through legislation known as the Bengal Sati Regulation.
The practice of suttee, where a widow is burnt alive on her husband's funeral pyre, was ended by British colonial authorities in India during the 19th century. This practice was not sanctioned by any specific religion, but was historically associated with Hindu customs in certain regions.
Suttee was an old Indian custom that a widow would perform because of her husband’s death. A Suttee was when the widow would go and burn herself on her previously deceased husband’s grave. Suttee was started because of this Hindu goddess, named Sati foolishly and stupidly burned herself with her own powers after her father insulted Shiva, who was her husband.
Suttee, the practice of widows self-immolating on their husbands' funeral pyres, was abolished in India in 1829 by the British administration under Lord William Bentinck. This was part of wider colonial efforts to curb cultural practices deemed inhumane or oppressive.
It is called Suttee sometimes spelled Sati, and is as one might guess, an illegal practice.
Suttee was an old funeral custom in India. When a man died, his widow was expected to join his body on the funeral pyre (fire) and be burnt with him.
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The now illegal act or practice of a Hindu widow's cremating herself on her husband's funeral pyre in order to fulfill her true role as wife.in South Asia, the now illegal practice of a Hindu widow throwing herself on her husband's funeral pyre
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ang suttee ay boluntaryong pagsunog ng isang babaeng balo o babaeng namatayan na ng asawa sa kanyang sarili bilang pagpapakita ng pagmamahal at katapatan sa kanyang namayapang asawa
This practice is now prohibited by law. In the past a wife would willingly, and in some cases forced to, die after the death of her husband. This ritual was carried out so that she would not be harassed by other men. Because in those days wives were protected by their husbands.