| 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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| Religious edicts have underpinned suicide bombings, amputations, female infanticide and genital mutilation, and the practice of suttee. |
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| What about suttee in India, a traditional practice abolished by the British colonialists? |
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| As such, the campaigns against thuggee and suttee frequently cropped up in imperial apologetics. |
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| In the 16th century, steps to prohibit suttee were taken by the Mughal rulers Humayun and his son Akbar. |
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| Numerous suttee stones, memorials to the wives who died in this way, are found all over India, the earliest dated 510 ce. |
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| Accordingly, in India the legally prohibited suttee and dowry traditions persist in some rural areas. |
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| Thus, there is no command either in Ramayana or in Gita to commit suttee. |
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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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| The practice of suttee, hypothesized by Gimbutas is also seen as a highly intrusive cultural element. |
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| Until the rebellion, they had enthusiastically pushed through social reform, like the ban on suttee by Lord William Bentinck. |
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| The custom of suttee, under which a widow burned herself alive along with her dead husband, persisted in India even among some Muslims until late into the Mughal period. |
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