SUTTEE

sŭˌtēˈ, sŭˈtēˌ [Skt. sati=faithful wife], former Indian funeral practice in which the widow immolated herself on her husband's funeral pyre. The practice of killing a favorite wife on her husband's grave has been found in many parts of the world; it was followed by such peoples as the Thracians, the Scythians, the ancient Egyptians, the Scandinavians, the Chinese, and peoples of Oceania and Africa. Suttee was probably taken over by Hinduism from a more ancient source. Its stated purpose was to expiate the sins of both husband and wife and to ensure the couple's reunion beyond the grave, but it was encouraged by the low regard in which widows were held. The practice was not universal throughout Hindu history. It was abolished by law in British India in 1829, but isolated cases of voluntary suttee have occurred into the 20th cent. See also funeral customs and suicide.

See E. J. Thompson, Suttee (1928).

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Today's Woman in World Religions
Book by Arvind Sharma; State University of New York Press, 1994
Subjects: Women And Religion
...January 1990 1 discussed the issue of suttee with scholars at the Institute for Oriental...were reexamining the whole history of suttee. They showed me over forty eyewitness...the British and other non-Hindus of suttee and how all these cases except two were...
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Dissenters and Mavericks: Writings about India in English, 1765-2000
Book by Margery Sabin; Oxford University Press, 2002
...although it is one of the longest suttee texts in Victorian literature and comes...highway robbery and murder that rivaled suttee in horrifying British minds. Neither his own reputation nor the dominant suttee discourse was much affected by Sleemans...
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Hindus: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices
Book by Julius Lipner; Routledge, 1998
...effacing widowhood. Manu does not prescribe suttee, but he rules that a widow should mortify...5.157-8). In the later sastras suttee is prescribed, though it was not legally...made recommendations, not state law). Suttee, in fact, was positively forbidden in...
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The British Impact on India
Book by Percival Griffiths; MacDonald, 1952
Subjects: British--India, India--Economic Conditions, India--History--British Occupation, 1765-1947
...December 1829 Regulation XVII made suttee illegal in Bengal and laid...assisting, even in a voluntary suttee, would be guilty of culpable...rejected. Although occasional suttees continued right down to modern...gone so far as to say that suttee provides an example of British...
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Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies
Book by John C. Hawley; Greenwood Press, 2001
Subjects: Developing Countries--Literatures--Encyclopedias, Literature, Modern--20th Century--Encyclopedias, Postcolonialism--Encyclopedias
...Subaltern Speak? Spivak analyzes the case of suttee to discover a different discursive capacity...her dead husband. Mani explains how the suttee -widow appears nowhere as subject. For instance, if she resists the act of suttee, she is viewed as a victim of Hindu men...
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Southern Africa
Journal article; Africa, Vol. 74, 2004
...Indexer 23 2003 63-65 4049 Napaai, H. Suttee, M-L., A Select bibliography of South...journal 47 2002 265-309 4050 Nappoai, H. Suttee, M-L., A select bibliography of South...Cuthbertson, G., Grundlingh, A. and Suttee, ML. (eds.), Writing a wider war...
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1 Understanding Dialogue
Journal article by Leonard Swidler; Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 43, 2008
Subjects: Interfaith relations--Analysis, Religions--Analysis, Religions--Relations
...now largely disappeared Hindu custom of suttee, widow-burning. The issue of the third...mentioned above, the burning of live widows, suttee, is not to be compared with the Christian...entirely) suppressed Hindu tradition of suttee? Should he or she try to learn its value...
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Embodied Pedagogies: Femininity, Diversity, and Community in Anthologies of Women's Writing, 1836-2009
Journal article by Karen L. Kilcup; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 26, 2009
Subjects: Anthologies--Criticism and interpretation, Femininity--Analysis, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works
...or American. Saraswatis selection on suttee provides an important touchstone for comparison...women in marriage. Because the subject of suttee was common among nineteenth-century...Terry Cooke published poems entitled "The Suttee," although neither is included here...
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Family Size Control by Infanticide in the Great Agrarian Societies of Asia*
Journal article by John C. Caldwell, Bruce K. Caldwell; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Family size, Farmers--Family, Infanticide
...reports, 1789-1820, on infanticide, suttee and thuggee. Much of the later analysis...infanticide (Sen, 2002:61). But, while suttee and thuggee were public offences, infanticide...to British Humanity, relative to the Suttee, Infanticide, British connexion with...
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Colonial Male Authority in George Meredith's Lord Ormont and His Aminta
Journal article by Timothy L. Carens; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 41, 2001
Subjects: English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Imperialism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Meredith, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Race relations--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...Through a figurative reference to suttee, the Hindu custom of widow immolation...civilizing" interventions in India, the suttee image implicitly anticipates the installation...symbol for misogynist culture often use suttee as a figure for circumstances in which...
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Women in South Asia: The Raj and After
Magazine article by Tanika Sarkar; History Today, Vol. 47, September 1997
Subjects: India--History, Women's rights--India
...subjects concerning women and the household: suttee or widow immolation, age and forms of...religious prescription in unprecedented ways. Suttee -- hitherto a universally accepted sign...practice and rattling the bars. Once suttee, absence of education., remarriage...
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India and the Discovery of Fingerprints
Magazine article by Alex Ninian; Contemporary Review, Vol. 283, September 2003
Subjects: Imprint of the Raj (Book)--Reviews
...early figure, may have been influenced by a Hindu suttee ceremony. Suttee was the ritual suicide of a widow on the burning funeral...pyre of her dead husband. As she passed through the Suttee Gate on her way to her death, the widow dipped her...
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The Ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz
Magazine article by Keith Windschuttle; New Criterion, Vol. 21, October 2002
Subjects: Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics (Book)
...in the West, such as cockfighting and suttee in Bali. His major interest, however...century by a Danish observer who witnessed a suttee rite in Bali, in which the cremation...Western imperial powers used customs like suttee as a rationale for imposing their own...
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Dialogue Not Monologue: Benedict XVI & Religious Pluralism
Magazine article by Francis X. Clooney; Commonweal, Vol. 132, October 21, 2005
Subjects: Benedict XVI, Pope--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Interfaith relations, Pluralism, Popes--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Religions--Relations
...involvement with the caste system; suttee (self-immolation) for widows, which...itself is evil. Almost everyone condemns suttee as murder, but Benedict interestingly...case, the popes judgments on caste and suttee, heard after comments on the Crusaders...
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A Love Story: Sati in Contemporary Rajasthan
Magazine article by Ann Newton Holmes; World and I, Vol. 22, April 2007
...later it came to me. To individuals in the West, sati, or suttee, the self-sacrifice of a widow on the funeral pyre of her...social custom and added, "The wise abandoned the practice of suttee sati with changing times. For others, it is one more way of...
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Virginia DeVillo Suttee Begando of St. Charles
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 13, 2007
Virginia DeVillo Suttee Begando of St. Charles. Virginia DeVillo Suttee Begando of St. Charles A joint memorial service for Virginia DeVillo Suttee Begando, 86, formerly of Elmhurst, and her husband, Dr. Joseph Begando, will be held at...
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Ferris 'Gun-Running Gang Nailed after Drunk with Hitman's Pistol Was Arrested on Train' Old Bailey Jury Told of Pounds 4000 Machine Guns Deal
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 8, 1998
Subjects: Glasgow, Scotland
...year, when Ferris, Suttee, 67, and fellow defendant...boarding pass were found in Suttees home. On the 23rd, Suttee drove Ferris to the...fingerprints on it. Ferris and Suttee left Ackermans home...The box was put in Suttees green Nissan Prairie...
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THANKS FOR MY 10 YEARS; Gangster Ferris Sneers at Judge as He Is Jailed
Newspaper article by Stuart Griffiths; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 24, 1998
...and Manchester. London Godfather Henry Suttee, 66, and gangster moll Constance Howarth...Underworld sources say his co-accused Suttee will be out for revenge after being snared...maximum allowed by the law. Ferris, Suttee and Howarth were found guilty after a...
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END OF LINE FOR HOUDINI; Police Trap That Nailed a Crooked Escape King
Newspaper article by Stuart Griffiths, Anna Smith; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 24, 1998
...34, and co-accused Henry Suttee 66, of Epsom, Surrey, were...Blackhill, Glasgow, and Suttee drove to a nearby pub where...guns, Ferris took them to Suttees green Nissan Prairie. Followed...of the gunbox. Ferris and Suttee were arrested later. All three...
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Boy from Schemes Who Tried to Become Godfather
Newspaper article by Anna Smith; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 24, 1998
...London Godfather Henry Suttee were close friends. He often travelled to Suttees four-acre home in a...explosives and drugs dealer Suttee named his sumptuous house...Ferris straight away. Suttees wife, Sheila, fell...family business deal. To Suttee, the cocky lad raised...
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Suttee
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SUTTEE su te , su te Skt. sati =faithful wife...Chinese, and peoples of Oceania and Africa. Suttee was probably taken over by Hinduism from...in 1829, but isolated cases of voluntary suttee have occurred into the 20th cent. See also...
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Cremation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...accepted in many Western countries today, although it has seen relatively little popularity in the United States as yet. See suttee . For bibliography see funeral customs . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Suicide
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and civil authorities. Compulsory suicide may be performed out of loyalty to a dead master or spouse. Examples of this are suttee in India and the similar behavior expected of the dead emperors favorite courtiers in ancient China. Such practices, now largely...
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Bentinck, Lord William Cavendish
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Indians to important office, fostered communication and education, and revised the system of landholding. He also abolished suttee and began suppression of the Thugs . See biography by J. Rosselli (1974). ____________________ Copyright...


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