How To Use Suttee In A Sentence
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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
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As such, the campaigns against thuggee and suttee frequently cropped up in imperial apologetics.
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Cecil Adams points out that some Hindus, including women, argue that suttee should be allowed because it's an integral part of their tradition.
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Her grandmother was widowed and they burned her alive in suttee, a Hindu practice the British stopped.
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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
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As such, the campaigns against thuggee and suttee frequently cropped up in imperial apologetics.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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
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You might consider India and the outlawed 'suttee', where a widow would climb on the funeral pyre of her dead husband.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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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.
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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...
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What about suttee in India, a traditional practice abolished by the British colonialists?
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Jokingly, she told Alec Woollcott she was thinking of practicing the Hindu custom of suttee.
ISAAC CAMPION
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So was suttee, the tradition in India of widows throwing themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres.
Patricia Yarberry Allen: 'Desert Flower' A Must-See Film About a Must-Change Custom
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The British government forbade "suttee," as widow burning was called, and although we hear that it is still practiced occasionally in remote parts of the empire, such an act would be punished as murder if the police were to learn of it.
Modern India
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When thuggee and suttee were abolished in India the British authorities shouldered the responsibility for eliminating those horrors and for administering the lands in question.
Archive 2007-01-01
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A British district officer, coming upon a scene of suttee, was told by the locals that in Hindu culture it was the custom to cremate a widow on her husband's funeral pyre.
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Thus, there is no command either in Ramayana or in Gita to commit suttee.
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Gordon rescues a young bride, Jwala, from the banned practice of suttee - a bride immolating herself with her dead husband.
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I challenge you to study why "suttee" was outlawedby theState of Indiaafter 1900, and why some Hindus still practicesuttee secretly in India today.
Christiane Amanpour's "God's Warriors"
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Another gem from this Steyn book: In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands.
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