Sati or suttee was a Hindu historical practice in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. It has been linked...

Look up Sati or sati in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sati or SATI may refer to: Sati (film), a 1989 Bengali film by Aparna Sen and starring Shabana...

and the current aspects of Hinduism, notably the caste system and the sati practice. Some of the earliest criticism of Brahminical texts, including the...

attending to their dead, or to die. Some Hindu groups practiced Sati (also known as suttee). Sati is the act of volunteered self immolation of a widow of the...

in Portsmouth. Napier enforced the British prohibition of suttee, or sati practice. This was the custom of having a widow burning alive on the funeral...

Sati (/ˈsʌtiː/, Sanskrit: सती, IAST: Satī, lit. 'truthful' or 'virtuous'), also known as Dakshayani (Sanskrit: दाक्षायणी, IAST: Dākṣāyaṇī, lit. 'daughter...

Rani Sati, also identified as Narayani Devi and referred to as Dadiji (grandmother), is said to be a Rajasthani woman who lived sometime between the 13th...

associated with the meaning of jauhar. The practice of jauhar has been claimed as being culturally related to Sati, with both being a form of suicide by women...

Sati (Pali: सति; Sanskrit: स्मृति smṛti), literally "memory" or "retention", commonly translated as mindfulness, "to remember to observe", is an essential...

the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck. The act made the practice of sati—or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased...