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Ceremony of Burning a Hindu Widow with the Body of her Late Husband, from Pictorial History of China and India, 1851. Following the outcry after the sati of Roop Kanwar, [144] the Government of India enacted the Rajasthan Sati Prevention Ordinance, 1987 on 1 October 1987. [145] and later passed the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987. [23]
The act made the practice of sati—or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband—illegal in all jurisdictions of British India and subject to legal prosecution. Widow Burning in India (August 1852). [1] Suttee by James Atkinson, 1831.
The villagers glorified this act (of sati) and started offering coconuts to her at place of death; this caused a shortage which raised a red flag to revenue officials. [ 8 ] Initial official records and eyewitness accounts provided by friends, family and villagers testify that Roop Kanwar's act of sati was a voluntary choice.
The act was created after the sati of Roop Kanwar in 1987 and applied to all of India except for Jammu and Kashmir. The act incorporated many colonial suppositions about the practice of sati, with the first paragraph of the preamble of the Act copying the opening lines of Lord William Bentinck’s Bengal Sati Regulation , or Regulation XVII of ...
The history of Daksha yajna and Sati's self-immolation had immense significance in shaping the ancient Sanskrit literature and influenced the culture of India. Each of the places on Earth where Sati's body parts were known to have fell were then considered as Shakta pithas and were deemed places of great spiritual importance. [11]
Dharma Sabha was formed in 1830 in Calcutta by Radhakanta Deb.The organization was established mainly to counter the ongoing social reform movements led by protagonists such as Raja Ram Mohun Roy and Henry Derozio.
The Rajput ceremony of Jauhar, 1567, as depicted by Ambrose Dudley in Hutchinsons History of the Nations, c.1910. Jauhar, sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, [1] [2] was a Hindu Rajput practice of mass self-immolation by women and girls [3] in the Indian subcontinent to avoid capture, enslavement, [4] and rape when facing certain defeat during a war.
Lieutenant General Lord William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck GCB GCH PC (14 September 1774 – 17 June 1839), known as Lord William Bentinck, was a British military commander and politician who served as the governor of Fort William (Bengal) from 1828 to 1834 and the first governor-general of India from 1834 to 1835.