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: How Nicoló Manucci, the Venetian who settled in India, saw and reported incidents of ‘Sati’ #IndiaNEWS It is during his return trip to Agra that Manucci, like so many Europeans before him, witnessed

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How Nicoló Manucci, the Venetian who settled in India, saw and reported incidents of ‘Sati’ #IndiaNEWS
It is during his return trip to Agra that Manucci, like so many Europeans before him, witnessed one of the most disconcerting Hindu practices, sati, the controversial custom of widow immolation on her deceased husband’s pyre. That custom, though involving only a minority of widows (specifically of the Brahmin caste), was widespread and deep-seated among Hindus and, as the Mughals realised on several occasions, difficult to eradicate. Among all Indian acts of ritual violence, sati was the most striking and upsetting for European observers. They were suspended between horror for the widot&Y[[YZ][ۈ܈]KX[XH^[ۋ[[[ܙH[ۙHYHوܚXH[܋H[ٙYݙ]ܝYHܚ[ۜوܝY[XXKۙ][[ZH]X[X[HY[Z][[ܚX[][ܘYXݘXHH]X[و[[[][YY]X[[[ܘ[X[]][X[H[Y[[]]HٝY܈HYYY[[[][ێYHؘ[8&X] HYYۙHو݈ݜˈH[YH[Yܛ[]H]HܜHوHY[ؘ[
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