MR. O'MALLEY quotes a remark by Lord William Bentinck, when the prohibition of suttee was under consideration, that the question was not what the rite was, but what it was thought to be. His own ...

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While it is true that sati gave rise to lurid, often ridiculous propaganda in the colonial period—foreigners, part scandalised, part transfixed by it, gave it many strange origin myths—it was ...

An Indian widow being led to suttee. Coloured etching, 1811. Date: Published as the Act directs, Feb. 16 1811 Reference: 10948i ...

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 ...

Discusses two rules set up by the British--no capital punishment to be meted out by princes; and no suttee. The practice of suttee is still outlawed.

4 Discussion The presented case describes a patient with limbic seronegative encephalitis complicated by amnestic syndrome and drug-resistant epilepsy. Despite a wide panel of studies performed, it ...