| Of all the social ills and problems plaguing Bihar, sati was never on the list. |
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| Women who practiced this act of sati were revered as saints and stone sati memorials exist in Rajasthan. |
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| This powerful period melodrama is set in the early years of the 19th century, right before the practice of sati was outlawed. |
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| The sati is the epitome of the obedient wife, but her burning is irredeemably barbaric. |
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| Where the condemned husband-murderer is given the chance to testify publicly on the scaffold, the sati nearly always proceeds in silence. |
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| First-wave feminists also maintained a wounded attachment to sati to justify their need to be partners in the Empire as civilising agents. |
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| In general, Hindu practices, and sati in particular, are repeatedly characterized as demonic in a manner similar to European witchcraft. |
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| Historical tales suggested that a woman attained both the power to give a curse and to confer a blessing in the period between her vow of sati and her death. |
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| Such a move enables a second shift, namely, the shift from viewing the sati as victim, to viewing her as active bearer of a particular, context-specific, subjectivity. |
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| He preached the principle of equality for women by prohibiting purdah and sati. |
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| She told him to excavate a yantra called Sriyantra from beneath the entrance to an abandoned Siva temple on the Sati Chaura ghat. |
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| In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice. |
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| Child abuse and female foeticide are still happening in big numbers, but Sati is only performed in rural areas and that also in some very backward places. |
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