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India / France: 'The Manner of Burying Themselves Alive with their Husband's Corpse' [a form of sati or suttee], engraving, Bernard Picart (1673-1733),1728
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Title:
India / France: 'The Manner of Burying Themselves Alive with their Husband's Corpse' [a form of sati or suttee], engraving, Bernard Picart (1673-1733),1728
Caption:
Sati (also spelled suttee) is an obsolete Hindu funeral custom where a widow immolates herself on her husband's pyre, or commits suicide in another fashion shortly after her husband's death.
. However sati could take the form of widow burial whenever the caste or community of the deceased called for it, as for example with the Jogi weavers of Bengal, or with the Jasnathis of Rajasthan, a lost branch of Ismaili Muslims who have reconverted to Hinduism.
. However sati could take the form of widow burial whenever the caste or community of the deceased called for it, as for example with the Jogi weavers of Bengal, or with the Jasnathis of Rajasthan, a lost branch of Ismaili Muslims who have reconverted to Hinduism.
Credit:
Album / Universal Images Group / Pictures From History
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Image size:
4800 x 3914 px | 53.8 MB
Print size:
40.6 x 33.1 cm | 16.0 x 13.0 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
1728 • 18TH CENTURY • 18TH CENTURY, THE • 18TH • ART • ARTS • ASIA • ASIAN • BERNARD • BURIAL • BURIED ALIVE • CULT, HINDUISM • ENGRAVED • ENGRAVING (ARTWORK) • ENGRAVING • ENGRAVING. • ENGRAVINGS • ETCHING • FESTIVAL • FRANCE • FRENCH • HINDU • HINDUISM • HINDUS • INDIA • INDIAN • INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS • INDIO • LEGEND • MUJER • PICART • PRINT • RELIGION • SATI • SELF • SUICIDE • SUTTEE • WIDOW BURNING • WIDOW CREMATION • WOMAN'S • WOMAN • WOMEN'S • WOMEN • WOMENS • XVIII CENTURY
