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Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India
Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
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| #2953547 in Books | 2000-02-15 | 2000-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.30 x6.00l,.98 | File type: PDF | 329 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A history of the practice of widow burning in Hinduism|By Jeri|When the British conquered India, they came face to face with practices they could neither understand or condone. Chief among them was the age old custom of sati, widow burning, in which the dead man's widow entered her husband's funeral pyre and burned to death..
When the British began to condemn and|From Library Journal|The spectacular phenomenon of Indian women committing suicide by entering their dead husbands' funeral pyres strains the limits of cross-cultural understanding. In an effort to unravel the complex symbolism surrounding this disturbing practi
"At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least...
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