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* In [[rural]] areas of [[India]], it is intended to humiliate those guilty of minor [[crime]]s, and usually meted out by village elders or the local [[panchayat]] system of justice. The guilty person's head is often shaved and a garland of used [[footwear]] hung around their neck before they are paraded around the village or town on a [[donkey]] while mocked by onlookers. 10th century inscriptions from [[Uttaramerur]] indicate that parading on donkey was a punishment for offences such as [[incest]], [[adultery]], [[theft]] and [[forgery]].<ref name="VKA_2010">{{cite book |title=Indian History |editor=VK Agnihotri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MazdaWXQFuQC&pg=SL2-PA62 |publisher=Allied |isbn=978-81-8424-568-4 |year=2010 |edition=26th |pages=B–62–B–65 }}</ref> | * In [[rural]] areas of [[India]], it is intended to humiliate those guilty of minor [[crime]]s, and usually meted out by village elders or the local [[panchayat]] system of justice. The guilty person's head is often shaved and a garland of used [[footwear]] hung around their neck before they are paraded around the village or town on a [[donkey]] while mocked by onlookers. 10th century inscriptions from [[Uttaramerur]] indicate that parading on donkey was a punishment for offences such as [[incest]], [[adultery]], [[theft]] and [[forgery]].<ref name="VKA_2010">{{cite book |title=Indian History |editor=VK Agnihotri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MazdaWXQFuQC&pg=SL2-PA62 |publisher=Allied |isbn=978-81-8424-568-4 |year=2010 |edition=26th |pages=B–62–B–65 }}</ref> | ||
* In a legend [[Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy]] was forced to ride a donkey backwards through the city of Milan after being taken captive by Milanese. | * In a legend [[Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy|Empress Beatrice of Holy Roman Empire]] was forced to ride a donkey backwards through the city of Milan after being taken captive by Milanese. | ||
* In the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]], "Iranian authorities frequently parade youths, forced to sit backwards on donkeys, in their local neighbourhood so as to embarrass and humiliate them ... for petty crimes such as alcohol consumption, disregarding nightly curfews and disrespect towards security agents",<ref>[http://www.corpun.com/irj00511.htm "Iran sentences three youth to flogging, jail"], in: ''Iran Focus'', 21 November 2005 (illustrated)</ref> or if the court orders so through several neighbourhoods; this may be a prelude to subsequent [[flogging]] and/or jail terms; in the Western [[Ancien Régime]] tradition too (long continued, even in former colonies), criminals were often transported publicly to the place of their ordeal. | * In the [[Islamic Republic of Iran]], "Iranian authorities frequently parade youths, forced to sit backwards on donkeys, in their local neighbourhood so as to embarrass and humiliate them ... for petty crimes such as alcohol consumption, disregarding nightly curfews and disrespect towards security agents",<ref>[http://www.corpun.com/irj00511.htm "Iran sentences three youth to flogging, jail"], in: ''Iran Focus'', 21 November 2005 (illustrated)</ref> or if the court orders so through several neighbourhoods; this may be a prelude to subsequent [[flogging]] and/or jail terms; in the Western [[Ancien Régime]] tradition too (long continued, even in former colonies), criminals were often transported publicly to the place of their ordeal. | ||
* In post-Renaissance [[France]] society ridiculed and humiliated husbands thought to be battered and/or dominated by their wives. A battered husband was trotted around town riding a donkey backwards while holding its tail.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=George|first=Malcolm J.|date=1994-11-01|title=Riding the Donkey Backwards: Men as the Unacceptable Victims of Marital Violence|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/106082659400300203|journal=The Journal of Men's Studies|language=en|volume=3|issue=2|pages=137–159|doi=10.1177/106082659400300203|s2cid=146762512|issn=1060-8265}}</ref> | * In post-Renaissance [[France]] society ridiculed and humiliated husbands thought to be battered and/or dominated by their wives. A battered husband was trotted around town riding a donkey backwards while holding its tail.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=George|first=Malcolm J.|date=1994-11-01|title=Riding the Donkey Backwards: Men as the Unacceptable Victims of Marital Violence|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/106082659400300203|journal=The Journal of Men's Studies|language=en|volume=3|issue=2|pages=137–159|doi=10.1177/106082659400300203|s2cid=146762512|issn=1060-8265}}</ref> | ||
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