Ive just read a article about people from India?

Question

it says that around 1883 and b4 that indian women were burned alive on there husbands funeral pyre,is this true.i mean why would they get married i find that bizarre.

Answer 1

Yes the practice was known as SATI. First young girls used to get married to old landlords / rich people. The marriage used to last only a few years bcoz after that, that old fellow would die. The society then forced those girls to jump in the pyre so as to protect them from the society. In the sense that they will be exploited by other men, men from their own family. It was stopped due to the forward looking (atleast according to those times and circumstances) Raja Ram Mohan Roy and the British. A terrible practice i must say. At least i think so.
But now there is none of it. Except an occasional case in the most backward and rural areas. The women in India are beginning to get even an equal share in property (which was not so earlier), an equal share in all matters of the house etc. Besides in the urban areas most of them work now and all are well educated and know their rights.
It is still a mans world but women are catching up.

Answer 2

Its true women are burnt on husbands funeral pyre. The British Government had abolished such things in India. Those things are a thing of past.

Today Indian women can file any number of wrong / false cases on their husband and take away their property. She can also put the husband behind the jail without any reason. Thats what today Indian legal system is about and today Indian women are all about.

Indian women can be said to be the worst criminals of the world.

Answer 3

Yes, that was true. The ritual was called SATI, where the widow is burned alive at the pyre of here husband, This occured in only a very few parts of India. It was officially banned a long time back. A big embarrsament for the whole nation really.

Answer 4

This is indeed in Indian history.This happened during Muslim invasion.When the husbands died in war,their women were exploited by the foreigners.So to aviod that women jumped into the pyre of their husband by choice.

Example : The beautiful Queen Padmini committed "Jowhar" along with other ladies of the palace after hearing the news of the death of their husbands in war to maintain their chastity.
Later on it became a practice " Sati " to do so even in untimely deaths.Thus it gradually became a tradition prevalent in Rajasthan.Child marriages also became a custom then.

But now all such practices have been abolished in free & independent India..

Answer 5

Don't believe everything you read. Be critical and open-minded. The practice has been banned a long time ago. And women were not burned. They chose to burn themselves on their husbands' pyres

Answer 6

It was called sutti and it was one of many bizarre rituals including self mutilation that Indians practiced until the British put a stop to it.

Answer 7

yup and i read last week in a newpaper that it did occur again very recently in a rural area of india. its because the woman will never be whole again without their husbands - they actually want to be burned alive so that their souls will trascend together. and marriage is everything hindu indian women would never avoid marriage.

Answer 8

yea its true.....it was a pracise among the hindus(not muslims).it is called SATI..at first it was voluntary,but thn later the women were forced to do so even if they weren't willing.....adn thn around the mid or late19th century the British government banned it and various reformers like raja ram mohan roy etc. started various movements against sati..

Answer 9

Yes, it's true ... the British outlawed the practice and the people rioted. I believe it was called something like settee.

Answer 10

That's messed up...then again, with those arranged marraiges, you might beg to be cut loose from the stinky old freak you got stuck with.