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Suttee resurrected: When suicide is dressed up as romance.

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Laura Dodsworth
Jun 12, 2025
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Suttee was the now-banned Hindu practice in which a widow would die on her husband’s funeral pyre. It has been romanticised as the ultimate act of wifely devotion, but many women were not willing par…

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