INDIAN WOMAN’S ACT.
CALCUTTA, Dec. 28. Her relatives having refused to allow her to perform suttee, a young Hindu widow at Cawnpore, in the agony of her grief, dressed in her dead husband’s clothes and leapt from the roof of the house and was killed.
Suttee is the practice of self-immo-lation on the husband’s funeral pyre. It is an old Hindu custom made illegal by the British authorities, hut it still persists on occasions.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 27, 29 December 1932, Page 7
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74INDIAN WOMAN’S ACT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 27, 29 December 1932, Page 7
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