Directory of Sati Resources

Sites with informative content related to the practice of Sati in India.

Resources in This Category

Kamat: The Tradition of Sati in India

http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/hindu/sati.htm
Sati is the traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)
Article and a collection of references.
Sati - Burning of the Hindu widow

http://adaniel.tripod.com/sati.htm
Describes the history of this practice, the origins, and recent history.
The Representation of Sati

http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/hardgrave/Satiart.rft.html
Includes a number of drawings by the Flemish artist Baltazard Solvyns from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, together with extracts from European accounts.
Women In The Sacred Laws - The Later Law Books

http://www.hindubooks.org/women_in_the_sacredlaws/the_later_lawbooks/page1.htm
An extract from a work by Shakuntala Rao Shastri. Includes early history of the practice, and the way that the treatment of sati came to differ from treatment of other forms of suicide.

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