“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.” [568x644 - 217KB]

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“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.” [568x644 - 217KB] (pic8.co)

General Sir Charles James Napier, who forced the cultural mores of the West on the Hindus of India by -- shockingly -- ending the practice of "Sati" (suttee), the burning of widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands.

- General Sir Charles James Napier, who forced the cultural mores of the West on the Hindus of India by -- shockingly -- ending the practice of "Sati" (suttee), the burning of widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands.

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It has to do with the 3 different racial/ethnic groups in the country. To simplify it, northern = lighter skinned aryian blood, south = darker, east gets chinky. It is a pretty diverse place.

edt: they haven't had the caste system for a few decades, but you mention a caste system as if it is a bad thing?

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The aryans provided the caste system. It was based on genetic lines.

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Hierarchy is an aesthetic value

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YES

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