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It is my understanding that this practice started when Rajput women chose to give up their lives rather than be abused by the Muslim foes.
nope that was Johar not satti. Satti was practiced even in normal circumstances, when a husband died natural death.
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nope that was Johar not satti. Satti was practiced even in normal circumstances, when a husband died natural death.
OK. My bad. Vaguely remember the term johar. Sati was really a bad practice. Glad the British got rid of it.
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movement against Satti started during Mughal period, but on other hand their attacks promoted Johar 
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That is really an irony. So which Mughal king started the movement against Sati?
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From Humayon to Aurangzeb almost all emperors.
Although the Mughals interfered little with local customs, they seemed intent on stopping sati. The emperor Humayun tried, but withdrew a royal fiat against sati.
Akbar (1542–1605) had issued general orders prohibiting sati and insisted that no woman could commit sati without the specific permission of his Chief police officers.They were instructed to delay the woman’s decision for as long as possible.Pensions, gifts and rehabilitative **help was offered to the potential sati to persuade her from committing the act.**Children were strictly forbidden from the practice.
Tavernier, writing **in the reign of Shah Jahan, observed that widows with children were not allowed in any circumstances to burn and that in other cases, governors did not readily give permission, but could be bribed to do so.
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The emperor Aurangzeb was the strongest opponent of sati among the Mughals.. In December 1663, he issued an “order that in all lands under Mughal control, never again should the officials allow a woman to be burnt”. Although the possibility of an evasion of government orders through payment of bribes existed, later European travelers record that by the end of Aurangzeb’s reign, sati was much abated and very rare, except by some Rajah’s wives.
Guru Nanak, the first Guru of the Sikhs(who lived during Mughal period), spoke out against the practice of sati.
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Very interesting. Wonder when Sati started.now that I think of it Madri mother of Nakila and Sahadeva gave up her life when her husband Landholder died. Kunti the elder wife thus was left to take care of the twine whom she raised very protectively.
Cant think of widows in our puranas.
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This autocrapcorrector changed Pandu to Landholder.
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Very interesting. Wonder when Sati started.now that I think of it Madri mother of Nakila and Sahadeva gave up her life when her husband Landholder died. Kunti the elder wife thus was left to take care of the twine whom she raised very protectively.
Cant think of widows in our puranas.
Agree, as far as I know religious scriptures don't support this practice. May be its due to love with the spouse, but again why don't we got male sattis?
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This autocrapcorrector changed Pandu to Landholder.
It also changed auto corrector to autocrapcorrector?
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It also changed auto corrector to autocrapcorrector?
Good one. No that was all me.
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This autocrapcorrector changed Pandu to Landholder.
And you were making fun of me other day :(
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And you were making fun of me other day :(
I would never do that!
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U did,u did 