suttee

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Suttee, the old Hindu custom of widow's suicide on the funeral pyre, has been banned in India since 1829; today it occurs rarely and then only in inaccessible villages in backward regions.

From Time Magazine Archive

She came to believe that the Suttee custom was a frank and on the whole a merciful recognition of the situation.

From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert

You can get the facts of a custom—like caste, and Suttee, and Thuggee, and so on—and with the facts a theory which tries to explain, but never quite does it to your satisfaction.

From Following the Equator, Part 5 by Twain, Mark

I fancy there will be a kind of Suttee.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 8, 1891 by Various

The marriage of widows he sanctioned, his order Three centuries since laid the ban on Suttee.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 18, 1890 by Various