Suttee, India, 1792. A crowd has gathered for a funeral and suttee. The body of the deceased man is being washed in the river before being dressed in fresh cotton robes. The funeral pyre stands ready, just to the left of the elephants. The practice of suttee or sati, whereby a Hindu widow was burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre, was legally banned in all the princely states of India by 1861.
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Suttee, India, 1792. A crowd has gathered for a funeral and suttee. The body of the deceased man is being washed in the river before being dressed in fresh cotton robes. The funeral pyre stands ready, just to the left of the elephants. The practice of suttee or sati, whereby a Hindu widow was burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre, was legally banned in all the princely states of India by 1861.

Date

1792

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A14_338

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (4,9Mo) / 41,9cm x 29,8cm / 4953 x 3525 (300dpi)

Mots clés

river animal hill hills female women woman people male library group crowd man men hygiene health India marriage washing guy geography color elephant Indian elephant death cruelty century hygienic concept issue controversy British Library cruel funeral controversial Colour widow 18th century Eighteenth Century Indian elephants geographical feature misogyny sati suttee TGN watercolour landscape Unknown Heritage Art

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