Sati

Such discourse portrayed the women being coerced into participating in Sati or widow immolation, as national heroines upholding India's traditional Hindu customary norms.

Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

243 Sati is memory plus consciousness, in a reasonable being, of what one is now doing.

Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909

Chatterjee summarizes this new emergent nonwestern Indian nationalist discourse in referring to Western European reformation of certain abusive Indian cultural customs such as Sati to enhance human rights for women:

Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

Instead, nonwestern Indian nationalist discourse categorized indigenous Indian women as either friends or enemies of the Indian national liberation movement by measuring the degree to which they adhered to the principles and practices of Indian, nonwestern, traditional Hindu culture and its rituals (those primarily oppressive for women such as Sati).

Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

The more the British attempted to reform nonwestern Indian practices, such as Sati, purdah, child marriage, divorce, remarriage, infanticide, and women's rights associated with India's inner private domain, the stronger Indian nationalist impetus was in its resistance to this colonial domination and subjugation.

Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

And in doing so, Western efforts to reform and enhance the human rights of indigenous Indian women were stifled and turned back as cultural practices such as Sati were reestablished within nonwestern Indian nationalist discourse.

Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

The 'Sati' version is that Roop told her father-in-law she wanted to commit Sati.

Story Behind Sati 2008

"Sati," Van Horn read, his finger marking the place, his eyes alternating watchfully between the writing and the black chief before him, while the black chief himself speculated and studied the chance of getting behind him and, with the single knife-thrust he knew so well, of severing the other's spinal cord at the base of the neck.

Chapter 10 1917

"Sati," Van Horn read, his finger marking the place, his eyes alternating watchfully between the writing and the black chief before him, while the black chief himself speculated and studied the chance of getting behind him and, with the single knife-thrust he knew so well, of severing the other's spinal cord at the base of the neck.

Jerry of the Islands Jack London 1896

Is it a virtual replay of the notion of Sati - then an incineration of the body and today a casting out to the ashes of one’s emotions – a more repetitive act?

Namkeen: The tears are salty Shantanud 2008