Suttee was outlawed by India's British rulers in 1829 following demands by Indian reformers. The custom originated 700 years ago in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, home to the Rajputs, a ...

William Christie MAC LEOD, CHILD SACRIFICE IN NORTH AMERICA, WITH A NOTE ON SUTTEE, Journal de la Société des américanistes, NOUVELLE SÉRIE, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1931), pp. 127-138 ...

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 ...

Siva, the many-ratured and versatile god of destruction, is doing a land-office business in Jodhpur these days. Ever since the Hindu widow Sugan Kunwar Singh flung herself sacrificially—and ...

Suttee, banned by the British in 1829, is still deeply revered by some rural communities, where it is seen as the ultimate act of fidelity.