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Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India
Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
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| #315386 in Books | Catherine Weinberger Thomas | 2000-02-15 | 2000-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.30 x6.00l,.98 | File type: PDF | 329 pages | Ashes of Immortality Widow Burning in India||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..
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"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...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Ashes of Immortality: Widow-Burning in India | Catherine Weinberger-Thomas.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.