In 1818 the rani of Travancore confronted a strange problem. A woman called Veeramma, widow of an immigrant soldier, wished to burn herself with his remains. Permission was denied, only for Veeramma ...

The Sati custom, which requires widows to throw themselves on their husbands' pyres, was abolished 175 years ago but there have just been two cases in as many months. The choice to leap into the ...

Seven relatives of a 75-year-old widow have been arrested by police for standing by and watching while she burnt herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre. Lalmati Verma's three sons, their wives ...

Satish Jhunjhunwala and Ananda Mukherji’s Sati: The Myth of Widow Burning in British India sets out to challenge one of the most disturbing and controversial narratives often associated with Indian ...

Police have arrested seven relatives of a 75-year-old widow for doing nothing to prevent the woman from killing herself by jumping into her husband's funeral pyre, officials said Tuesday. Subscribe to ...

We have all heard about sati, the cruel practice of making a widow burn herself alive on the funeral pyre of her dead husband. Memoirs of some foreign travellers like the French physician Bernier in ...

NEW DELHI - Police have arrested seven relatives of a 75-year-old widow for doing nothing to prevent the woman from killing herself by jumping into her husband's funeral pyre, officials say. Lalmati ...

Though motivation and glorification of sati is a crime under the Commision for Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987, dozens of small and big temples flourish unchecked in Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and across ...