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Q4-What was suttee? [4 Marks]

Answer 1

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The ancient Hindu tradition called 'sati' (or 'suttee'), wherein a widow would burn herself to death on her husband's pyre, was initially a voluntary act that was considered to be quite courageous and heroic, but it later became a forced practice.

Answer 2

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The Sati or suttee was a historical practice found chiefly among Hindus in the northern and pre-modern regions of South Asia, in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre. The extent to which sati was practised in history is not known with clarity

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