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 ...

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 ...

In English, a widow burned alive on the funeral pyre of her dead husband is called a "suttee"; in Sanskrit and Hindi texts, she is a "sati" or "good woman." All over India are sati stones that ...