Talk:Sati

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"Once upon a time we knew what to do. A British district officer, coming upon a scene of suttee, was told by the locals that in Hindu culture it was the custom to cremate a widow on her husband's funeral pyre. He replied that in British culture it was the custom to hang chaps who did that sort of thing. There are many great things about India - curry, pyjamas, sitars, software engineers -- but suttee was not one of them. What a pity we're no longer capable of being 'judgmental' and 'discriminating'." Mark Steyn [1]

There is both archeological and historical evidence for suttee among the Germanic tribes, e.g. Ibn Fadlan's account of Swedish vikings and the mounds of Ohthere in Vendel and Aun in Old Uppsala. Does that piece of information fit in anywhere here?--Wiglaf 21:26, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Article of its own? Suttee term doesn't feel associated with ancient Germanic tribes. Pavel Vozenilek 21:58, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I was thinking of the Indo-European connection.--Wiglaf 02:02, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Aha. No idea about that. Pavel Vozenilek 02:57, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)