From ritual exclusion to sati and being burnt at the stake for being witches, this meticulous examination of the cultural history of women who have lost their husbands to death looks at how widows hav ...

The ancient world was shaped not only by empires and monuments but by the strange and symbolic rituals that people believed kept their worlds in balance. Across continents, civilisations practised ...

Also, they say sati is a Hindu ritual and Janakrani was a tribal. But many here say that some of the Hindu social and religious practices have been adopted by the tribes in the recent years. Roop ...

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 ...

Lord William Bentinck outlawed sati in 1829, but the law was later diluted In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient ...

In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre ...