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faggie

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Sati happened but only in an isolated manner. Ask your grandmother whether she knows a single case of sati in her village, unless she was from a royal background she will deny it because it was restricted only among the elites at the time. WhatsApp forwards suggest Raja Ram Mohan roy was a Christian but in reality he defended vedas and Upanishads against missionaries, converted a Christian missionary to his own belief(second fallen Adam) and even criticised missionaries.... Sati was mainly restricted in the Bengal region out of 8000 register cases at Roy's time 5000+ were accounted for from the Kolkata division alone.... Sati was exaggerated as a wide spread hindu practice similar to pardha or burkha but in reality it was more of a cultural issue mostly in Bengal followed by Rajasthan... The main 2 reasons of its origin are devised from The earliest roots of Sati do not come from religion, but from ancient tribal and martial customs. In many ancient Indo-European and Central Asian cultures (like the Scythians), it was customary to bury a chieftain or warrior with his servants, horses, and wives so they could "serve" him in the afterlife. Starting around the 8th century with Islamic invasions, Rajput women and women of other martial communities practiced Jauhar—mass self-immolation to avoid capture, (auto-excised), and enslavement by invading armies