Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Fifteen people who allegedly forced a woman to burn herself to death by sitting on her husband's funeral pyre in the central Indian ...

INDIA: Suttee Boom. 3 minute read. TIME. December 20, 1954 12:00 AM GMT-5. Siva, the many-ratured and versatile god of destruction, is doing a land-office business in Jodhpur these days.

Police in central India arrested 15 people yesterday after a woman burnt herself alive on her husband's pyre in a re-enactment of the outlawed practice of suttee. Kuttu Bai, 65, sat calmly on the ...

The village in central India where more than 1,000 men and women stood and watched as a 65-year-old woman burned herself alive in a revival of the ancient Hindu practice of suttee, or widow ...