Column | Fire, fidelity and an inhuman heritage
Once reserved for the warrior caste, the ‘prestige’ associated with the act of Sati led to its proliferation. Until the ...
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Sati was real. But it was also great propaganda
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 ...