into surpluses, he tackled a controversial social problem. Indeed, it was Bentinck's own contention that he had considered the issue of suttee and its ...
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www.jstor.org/stable/175184
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suttee is the policy of inhibiting or prohibiting life extension on such ... controversial, but the point may be moot. Life extension may well be too costly ...
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doi.wiley.com/10.1196/annals.1297.099
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The Sati (Su-thi , a.k.a. suttee) is the traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre. Sati was prevalent among ... Warning: This section deals with the controversial topic of suicide. It merely is a study of a social practice and it does not mean we endorse the Sati system.
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www.kamat.com/kalranga/women/sati/index.htm
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The British outlawed suttee (the ancient practice of women leaping into their husband's funeral pyres) in 1829, but it remains a controversial issue. A recently-published guidebook for the tourist spot of Rajasthan appears to glorify suttee and this has human rights advocates outraged.
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atheism.about.com/b/2005/06/11/india-tour-guide-praises...
atheism.about.com/b/2005/06/11/india-tour-guide-praises-suttee.htm
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The present Article examines the meaning that Judge Posner ascribes to morality and analyzes the way he applies his concept of morality to five controversial topics of his choice: infanticide, slavery, suttee, female genital mutilation, and the Holocaust.2;
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anthonydamato.law.northwestern.edu/Adobefiles/contested...
anthonydamato.law.northwestern.edu/Adobefiles/contested-morality.pdf
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Prof. heads seminar about controversial issue The term "controversial" is an understatement when describing the National History Standards, according to Raymond Wolters, Thomas Muncy Keith Professor of History.
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www.udel.edu/PR/UpDate/97/1/18.html
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Some Controversial Aspects of the Myth of Baldr ost students of Scandinavian mythology have ambitions similar to those of Detter, but after two ... This could be a romanticized version of a tale in which a woman (like Brynhildr) commits suicide after the death of her beloved, ultimately, a possible echo of suttee.
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userpage.fu-berlin.de/~alvismal/11baldr.pdf
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SATI [Suttee]: a HINDU woman who commits SUICIDE on her husband's funeral pyre. ... SCIENTOLOGY: a controversial NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT founded by Ron L. HUBBARD who in many respects was a modern SHAMAN. It aims at applying religious PHILOSOPHY through a process of education and unique counselling to recover spirituality...
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www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/books/concise/WORDS-S.htm...
www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/books/concise/WORDS-S.html
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The burning of wives on the funeral pyres of their husbands, widow-burning, commonly known as sati ("suttee" in English), ... Once the sati declared her intention to follow her husband in death she had to burn herself, even if the Hindu legal treatises that sanctioned this highly controversial practice allowed her to retract.
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www.deathreference.com/Vi-Z/Widow-Burning.html
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