Sentence examples for practice of suttee from inspiring English sources

The practice of suttee is still outlawed.

The centuries-old practice of suttee — a widow burning herself alive on her husband's funeral pyre — has all but vanished.

He also strictly enjoined his followers to refrain from the prevailing Hindu practice of suttee (self-immolation of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre).

As with slavery, so with the Indian practice of suttee: missionaries undoubtedly helped extinguish the custom -- newly and uncanonically instituted -- by which widows were burned alive on their husbands' funeral pyres while everyone screamed to drown out the victims' cries.

For example, she cites the practice of suttee -- by which widows are burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands -- to represent pretty much the whole of the female condition in India.

After Roy's death, Debendranath Tagore (father of the greatest poet of modern India, Rabindranath Tagore [1861 1941]) became leader of the Brahmo Samaj, and under his guidance a more mystical note was sounded by the society; Tagore also promoted literacy and vigorously opposed idolatry and the practice of suttee.

The cultured despisers of religion think that persuading Indians to give up suttee, the practice of burning living widows on their husbands' funeral pyres, is cultural imperialism.

Countless wives, daughters and sisters are doused in petrol and burnt alive, a modern form of suttee.

The hardships encountered by widows in traditional Hindu society may have contributed to the spread of suttee.

(When Southern asks if Green's work is "too subtle" for American readers, Green replies with a definition of "suttee," the Hindu self-sacrifice ritual).

The larger incidence of suttee among the Brahmans of Bengal was indirectly due to the Dayabhaga system of law (c. 1100), which prevailed in Bengal and which gave inheritance to widows; such women were encouraged to committ suttee in order to make their inheritance available to other relatives.