File:Preparation for Suttee.jpg

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Plate 13 from R. M. Grindlay's "Scenery, Costumes and Architecture chiefly on the Western Side of India". The painting shows preparation being made (some time in the early 19th century) for a sati ceremony, in which the newly widowed wife (shown in a white sari by the water) of a deceased Hindu upper caste man is to sit (by her own volition or by virtue of being forced by others) atop his funeral pyre and to immolate herself.

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1826

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Robert Melville Grindlay (1786-1877), Aquatint, coloured.

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