widow-burning

"Which reminds me, expect cows on the pitch when the Cup goes to Mumbai -- and widow-burning!"

Jim O'Grady: Vuvuzela to Soccer Fans: Blow Me 2010

The belief that the British intended to Christianise India (see Note 5) was widespread, and reinforced by such reforms as the suppression of thugee and suttee (widow-burning).

Fiancée 2010

"Which reminds me, expect cows on the pitch when the Cup goes to Mumbai -- and widow-burning!"

Jim O'Grady: Vuvuzela to Soccer Fans: Blow Me Jim O'Grady 2010

Except for the method of death, this is indistinguishable from suttee, the Hindu practice of widow-burning.

Flogging in Soft Focus 2009

His campaign for the abolition of sati (widow-burning) confronts many ethical and cultural issues which are still debated today (Stein, 1988: 465).

The Rammohun Roy connection 2008

His campaign for the abolition of sati (widow-burning) confronts many ethical and cultural issues which are still debated today (Stein, 1988: 465).

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

But it's also offensive to take the ordinary stuff of cultural and religious practice much of which doesn't require any formal 'reasonable accommodation' in law, just basic freedoms and link them to widow-burning.

Jacob T. Levy Jacob T. Levy 2007

They also allow a faux-naive "what could be wrong with what we said?" defense: "It's true that we have a norm against widow-burning, and we should, so what's the problem?"

Jacob T. Levy Jacob T. Levy 2007

It is no more a crime to tell about American beliefs concerning knacks than it is to report on Muslim harems and Hindu widow-burning.

Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

That, at least, was honest incompetence; if you want my opinion of widow-burning, the main reason for it is that it provides the sort of show the mob revels in, especially if the victims are young and personable, as they were in Jawaheer's case.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990