suttee

How To Use suttee In A Sentence

• They have been spoonfed lies and distortions about the British Empire, so that they bleat about how ashamed they are of it, forgetting that for all its faults it gave parliamentary democracy to the world (or tried to), and abolished excesses such as suttee and thuggee. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• Another gem from this Steyn book: In a more culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. Random feeds from Syndic8.com
• I challenge you to study why "suttee" was outlawedby theState of Indiaafter 1900, and why some Hindus still practicesuttee secretly in India today. Christiane Amanpour's "God's Warriors"
• Gordon rescues a young bride, Jwala, from the banned practice of suttee - a bride immolating herself with her dead husband.
• Thus, there is no command either in Ramayana or in Gita to commit suttee.
• A British district officer, coming upon a scene of suttee, was told by the locals that in Hindu culture it was the custom to cremate a widow on her husband's funeral pyre.
• When thuggee and suttee were abolished in India the British authorities shouldered the responsibility for eliminating those horrors and for administering the lands in question. Archive 2007-01-01
• The British government forbade "suttee," as widow burning was called, and although we hear that it is still practiced occasionally in remote parts of the empire, such an act would be punished as murder if the police were to learn of it. Modern India
• So was suttee, the tradition in India of widows throwing themselves on their husbands' funeral pyres. Patricia Yarberry Allen: 'Desert Flower' A Must-See Film About a Must-Change Custom
• Jokingly, she told Alec Woollcott she was thinking of practicing the Hindu custom of suttee. ISAAC CAMPION