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The Immolation of Roop Kanwar On September 4, 1987 Roop Kanwar, an eighteen-year old teen had taken the decision to jump into the funeral pyre of her husband in an act of self- immolation that came to establish a legacy that would live on for years to come. When wasRead More →

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Yang believes that Sati was not practiced by all Hindus but rather by some lineages and mostly by lower-income families. But that did not stop it from being a prevalent ritual. However, the earliest evidence of Sati in India can be found in stone seals and inscriptions known as ‘satigals’Read More →