Wha is the mythology behind the practice of sati?
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practice of sati is a very cruel practice. In it, if the husband dies her wife is also forced to die
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The self-immolation of recently bereaved wives on their husbands' funeral pyres confronted the British in India with central questions about the obligations of the colonizer to the colonized, respect for other cultures, and questions of gender that had important implications for British women.
In India, the individuals who sacrificed themselves in this way were called satis, from the Sanskrit word for "a good woman," by association with the goddess Sati. In Hindu mythology, Sati is the wife of Shiva, and she immolates herself in protest against her father's lack of respect for her husband. In one telling, her faithfulness is such that she feels no pain from the fire.
Of course, since Siva himself is immortal, no version of the myth ever really fits the ritual as it developed (see Hawley, Introduction, 14). More analogous to it, perhaps, were the self-immolations of the Rajput women of Rajasthan, who in earlier times chose this way of preserving their and their husbands' honour when their menfolk went off to battle.
But here again there were great differences. These women's husbands, too, were not yet dead, and a jauhar, as the preemptive act was called, was a communal one involving children, the sick and the elderly as well.
Still, like Sati, both the Rajput wives of olden days and the satis were seen to demonstrate the extreme of wifely devotion.
Suttee or "widow-burning," as the British called it, became a subject of much concern to the new administrators. As time went by, it acquired a peculiar resonance for them, and for those in the home country as well.
Suttee or "widow-burning," as the British called it, became a subject of much concern to the new administrators. As time went by, it acquired a peculiar resonance for them, and for those in the home country as well.
As well as raising uncomfortable and challenging issues about the role and duties of the British in India, it called into question the self-abnegation expected of women in Britain itself, prompting some reflections on the very nature of service and self-sacrifice, especially in the colonial context. Today, thanks largely to the Kolkata-born cultural theorist Gayatri Spivak, it has again become a hot topic among postcolonial and feminist critics.
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The practice is that if a husband has died.The wife will also put into the burning fiire.They will burn alive.If a man has 12 wife.All wife has been put into fire.
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