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.

It was a case that made headlines globally and led to widespread condemnation. A teenaged widow was burned on her husband's funeral pyre under the Hindu practice of sati 37 years ago. Now Roop ...

The Sati custom, which requires widows to throw themselves on their husbands' pyres, was abolished 175 years ago but there have just been two cases in as many months. The choice to leap into the ...

Satish Jhunjhunwala and Ananda Mukherji’s Sati: The Myth of Widow Burning in British India sets out to challenge one of the most disturbing and controversial narratives often associated with Indian ...

Police have arrested seven relatives of a 75-year-old widow for doing nothing to prevent the woman from killing herself by jumping into her husband's funeral pyre, officials said Tuesday. Lalmati ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The treatment of widows in India has been discussed and criticized widely. In 2021, “SheThePeople,” a digital website devoted to the women’s movement in India, published “Seven Inhuman ...

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 ...

Though never a significant practice in statistical terms, sati (widow burning) played a pivotal role in British representations of India. While the East India Company negotiated its new role in India ...

Raipur: A 55-year-old woman has gone missing after her husband’s funeral in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. Gulapi Gupta’s clothes and footwear were found near the pyre, leading the family to ...