suttee

How To Use suttee In A Sentence

• Dorje has done that to her which sets up consequences; she gives birth to consequence; it is a sacred frenzy such as actuated all those widows who committed suttee in the days gone by. Jimgrim
• As such, the campaigns against thuggee and suttee frequently cropped up in imperial apologetics.
• Cecil Adams points out that some Hindus, including women, argue that suttee should be allowed because it's an integral part of their tradition.
• Her grandmother was widowed and they burned her alive in suttee, a Hindu practice the British stopped.
• The best known case of widow slaying is of course the custom of "suttee" in India. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
• As such, the campaigns against thuggee and suttee frequently cropped up in imperial apologetics.
• 49 I am not aware that this vivisepulture of the widower is the custom of any race, but the fable would be readily suggested by the Sati (Suttee) - rite of the Hindus. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• To explain the weakness of such a position I used to ask them whether the British authorities in India were justified in banning the practice of suttee, where a widow was immolated on the funeral pyre of her husband.
• They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• When one thinks of the atrocious crimes, upheld by religious sanctions, such as suttee and infanticide, which we have put down in the face of determined opposition and even threats of rebellion from the most honoured classes of the community, it is strange to be told that "before we went the people were religious, chaste, sober, compassionate towards the helpless, and patient under suffering," and that we have corrupted them. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877