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Sati: How the fight to ban burning of widows in India was won

Lord William Bentinck outlawed sati in 1829, but the law was later diluted In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient Hindu ...
Los Angeles Times

On India’s back roads, sati revered

BANIYANI, INDIA — It’s an unused cornfield at the edge of an isolated village, an empty plot of earth that the police flattened with a backhoe and hosed down with a water tanker. But villagers take ...
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Eight persons accused in India’s last known sati case acquitted by Jaipur court

Eight persons accused of glorifying the last known case of sati in India were acquitted on Wednesday by a special court in Rajasthan’s Jaipur, reported PTI. The practice of sati, which was banned in ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Manusmriti, Sati, Dowry, Female Infanticide. Who Does Indian Feminism Target?

It all started with an argument on Facebook. The argument was over the generic statement ‘respect women’, where many men had shared the meme “respect the person, not the gender”. While the debate ...
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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.