Each has a rough carving upon it, representing a man and a woman standing or walking hand in hand, and marks the spot where a widow went to her death by fire in the days when the suttee flourished.
He sent for all the chief members of the family and said he would suffer her to burn herself if they would enter into a written engagement to abandon the suttee in their family thenceforth.
He issued his proclamation abolishing the Suttee in his district.
Probably it was the strong will of the Suttee that would not allow her body to be separated from that of her husband even in death.
Frequent instances are found in Bengal; and whenever a case comes to the notice of the public the newspapers report it in a manner which shows that respect for the Suttee is not yet dead.
The company were conveyed to a Hindu temple on the shore, where the suttee had formerly been performed, and which was provided with a broad staircase leading down to the water.
That is the statue of Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, the first governor-general of India; and many important events dated from his time, for he suppressed the suttee and thugging.
The comparatively modern custom of suttee originated with the priests, whose avaricious desires created this system in order thereby to secure the property of the widow.
She had been suttee always as the master very well knew.
A man who knows India well says that it was no kindness to widows to put a stop to suttee because, if they live on, their existence is so wretched that death would be better.
The custom of suttee was strongest in the lower castes.
The second case of suttee which I shall mention took place at the death of the rajah, or king of Tanjore.
If the British were to lose their power in India, the suttee would immediately be rëestablished.
Suttee was also regarded as a high type of religious devotion.
And is it remarkable that the Hindu widow, rather than endure the neglect, the temptations and the obloquy of her widowhood, should have preferred to practice Suttee and to end her miseries upon the funeral pyre of her husband?
The suttee case was decided at the Privy Council on Saturday last, and was not uninteresting.
Since the earlier notice, within the century and a quarter interval, Hindu influence had become manifest for a sort of suttee is related.
The practice of Ganjatra is but one out of many similar barbarities that disgrace the religion of the Hindoos, but it is fast sharing the fate of suttee and infanticide.
A government which has checked infanticide and suppressed suttee could not fail to succeed, if it interfered, in causing these fairs to be held in the cold weather.
A strong body of sepoys took cover behind the village of Suttee Chowra.
The Suttee Chowra Ghaut, or landing-place, lay a short mile to the north-west of our intrenchment.
His two most memorable acts are the abolition ofsuttee and the suppression of the Thugs.
Thus the Brahmans were offended at the prohibition of suttee and female infanticide, the execution of Brahmans for capital offences, the re-marriage of widows, the spread of missionary effort and the extension of Western education.
There took place, in 1827, the last suttee permitted under public sanction.
On the former suttee ground stood in its centre a temple; a series of small minarets of peculiar device indicate spots on which immolation of widows had taken place.
If the strong arm of England were not raised over the great empire of the East the suttee rite and child sacrifice would unquestionably prevail to-day.
It was known that the rite of the suttee was to be performed--the widow was to sacrifice herself upon the blazing pyre of the deceased, in keeping with Hindu custom.
The mourners then withdraw to a shaded spot beside a suttee structure, and silently watch the conflagration.
Upon these, until British rule put a stop to the custom, thousands of fanatical wives underwent suttee and were burned alive with their dead husbands.
It is lamentable to think how long after our power was firmly established in Bengal, we, grossly neglecting the first and plainest duty of the civil magistrate, suffered the practices of infanticide and Suttee to continue unchecked.
It had reference to this terrible suttee business.
They say nothing, absolutely nothing, about suttee or its practice, which from the beginning has been a damnable invention of the priests.
There have been all kinds of stories about suttee being practised in Howrah, and it very likely won't be difficult to find a plausible excuse for deposing the Maharajah and putting Jaimihr in his place.
Suttee is against the law as well as against all dictates of reason and humanity; yet the Hindoos make a constant practice of it here under our very eyes.
For that reason, and for no other, I have tried to be a thorn in your side, and will continue to try to be until this suttee ceases!
To openly befriend the Christian priests would be to set the whole Hindoo population against himself, for it had been mainly against suttee and its kindred horrors that the missionaries had bent all their energy.
That would stop suttee for all time, and we would have given our lives for something worth while.
McClean-sahib has told me that suttee has been practised here as a regular thing.
From the entrenchment we went to the Suttee Chowrah ghat, where the doomed garrison were permitted to embark in the boats in which they were murdered, and traces of the treachery were still very plain, many skeletons, etc.
This was some return we felt for his treachery at Suttee Chowrah ghat six months before.
A reverse view of matrimonial experiences is suggested by the practice of wives refusing to survive their husbands and, like the victims of suttee in India, putting a voluntary end to their existence rather than live to mourn their loss.
Suttee is the name given to the act of a woman immolating herself upon the funeral pile with the body of her deceased husband.
