Sati (8)

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http://hamsa.org/tyranny-elect.htm
'Horror of Sati' or Tyranny of the Elect? Open in a new browser window
   On the lack of true dialogue or discussion on the traditions behind sati and related issues.
   http://hamsa.org/tyranny-elect.htm
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/roy.html
Burning Widows Alive Open in a new browser window
   An imaginary essay on the practice of widows being burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyres.
   http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/roy.html
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/hindu/sati.htm
Kamat: The Tradition of Sati in India Open in a new browser window
   Sati is the traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
   http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/hindu/sati.htm
http://www.vivaaha.org/sati.htm
Sati Open in a new browser window
   Account of the origin of the practice. Includes description of Jauhar and social situations in the Middle Ages.
   http://www.vivaaha.org/sati.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29
Sati (practice) - Wikipedia Open in a new browser window
   Article and an extensive collection of references.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/hardgrave/Satiart.rft.html
The Representation of Sati Open in a new browser window
   Includes a number of drawings by the Flemish artist Baltazard Solvyns from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, together with extracts from European accounts.
   http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/hardgrave/Satiart.rft.html
http://www.hindubooks.org/women_in_the_sacredlaws/the_later_lawbooks/page1.htm
Women In The Sacred Laws - The Later Law Books Open in a new browser window
   An extract from a work by Shakuntala Rao Shastri. Includes early history of the practice, and the way that the treatment of sati came to differ from treatment of other forms of suicide.
   http://www.hindubooks.org/women_in_the_sacredlaws/the_later_lawbooks/page1.htm

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