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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (65759)	11/28/2009 12:51:04 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

well, it is hard to know how to think about that. The British did outlaw the practise of sati in India: I believe outlawing sati trumps the cultural imperative. And democracy took hold. Sati (practice) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sati (Devanagari: ???, the feminine of sat "true"; also called suttee)[5] is a funeral practice among some Hindu communities in which a recently widowed woman would either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. This practice is now rare and outlawed in modern India.[1] The term is derived from the original name of the goddess Sati, also known as Dakshayani, who self-immolated because she was unable to bear her father Daksha's humiliation of her (living) husband Shiva. The term may also be used to refer to the widow herself. The term sati is now sometimes interpreted as "chaste woman."