Sati (practice) - Wikipedia Sati or suttee[a] is a chiefly historical Hindu practice in which a widow burns alive on her deceased husband 's funeral pyre, [1][2] either voluntarily, [3] by coercion, [4][5] or by a perception of the lack of satisfactory options for continuing to live [6]
Sati | Practice, History, Abolition | Britannica Sati is a South Asian custom in which a wife immolates herself on her dead husband’s funeral pyre or in some other fashion soon after his death It was considered to embody the ideal of womanly devotion held by certain Brahmin and royal castes
Sati: How the fight to ban burning of widows in India was won In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre
Unpacking the Complex Debate on Sati in Colonial India Sati, also spelled “suttee” in British colonial texts, referred to the practice where a Hindu widow would burn herself on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband It was tied to ideas of wifely devotion, ritual purity, and spiritual reward
India’s Sati Stones Commemorate a Macabre Historical Practice The practice of sati appears to have been prominent in the early years of the Mughal rule in India—which lasted from 1526 to 1857—when the religiously diverse subcontinent was mostly governed
The practice of Sati : A historical and socio-cultural analysis “Sati”, or “Suttee”, was a well-known social practice in Hinduism in ancient India where a widow would burn herself alive on her husband's funeral pyre The Sanskrit term '' Satī '' (Sanskrit: सती ) is used in Hinduism to refer to ritual suicide