The upper-class performed " suttee ", a ritual suicide by widowed wives, concubines or female servants, through self immolation by throwing themselves into flaming cremation fire.
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For example, she cites the practice of suttee _ by which widows are burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands _ to represent pretty much the whole of the female condition in India.
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9 . Finally, also, we were induced by the advice of the nizamat adalat to leave out a provision that the Mahomedan law-officers should not take any part in trials in cases of suttee.
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Michael Walzer notes that the British in India tolerated the Hindu practice of suttee ( ritual burning of a widow ) until 1829 . On the other hand, the United States declined to tolerate the Mormon practice of polygamy.
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Sometimes papers are destroyed by writers wishing to conceal or sanitize the realities of their marital and sexual relations, suppressing evidence of their uncaring wrongs or creative debts to spouses and lovers, thereby committing a kind of literary suttee.
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Ackerley, who had lost a brother and both parents, described it as " the saddest day of my life . " He said : " I would have immolated myself as a " suttee " when Queenie died.
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In Ancient India, upon seeing the heinous widow s ritual of self-immolation, suttee, Alobar consoles a young girl, Kudra, horrified at the sight of the woman attempting to escape the flames of the funeral pyre.
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The 2005 novel " The Ashram " by Indian writer Sattar Memon, deals with the plight of an oppressed young woman in India, under pressure to commit suttee and the endeavours of a western spiritual aspirant to save her.
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In the 1886 published Hobson-Jobson, Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell mention the practice of " Suttee " ( sati ) as an early custom of Russians near Volga, tribes of Thracians in southeast Europe, and some tribes of Tonga and Fiji islands.
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The ruler of Tabanan had also caused Dutch discontent by authorizing in 1904 the practice of " suttee " ( ritual self-sacrifice of relatives upon the death of a ruler, also called " wesatia " ) despite a Dutch formal request to abandon it.
