Take advantage of this once in a lifetime offer: witness the traditional Indian suttee, a barbaric ritual in which a willing Hindu widow is cremated on the funeral pyre of her .
With such proverbs as these, Indians have for centuries coldly praised the suttee: "a good woman" who allows herself to be burned to death at her husband's funeral.
At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptionscaste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on .