WIDOW'S "SUTTEE"
(Press. Assn.-
SACRIFICES HERSELF IN GRIEF FOR HER - HUSBAND
— By Telegraph — Copyrlght),
Rec. Dec. 28, 11 p.m. 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 hushand's clothe^, leaped from the roof of the house and was killed. Suttee is the practice of self immolation on a hushand's funeral pjrre. It is an old Hindu custom and was made illegal hy the British authorities, but is still practised on occasions.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 417, 29 December 1932, Page 5
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92WIDOW'S "SUTTEE" Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 417, 29 December 1932, Page 5
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