5 example sentences using suttee.
Suttee used in a sentence
Suttee in a sentence as a noun
Should we have allowed the Indians to call on such savage practice as suttee?
I am not up in arms about this, but I find it pretty easy to condemn suttee, for instance.
Well the first phase of the British Empire was much more about the trade than repression and saw abolition of suttee and slavery.
The West was still full of savage practices when suttee was outlawed, and the millions killed by colonialism outweigh the lives saved by this "education.
Think about infant mortality, sanitation or historical practices like suttee.
Suttee definitions
noun
the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband