Question

What is Sati?

• A. Custom of a Hindu widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre.
• B. Custom of a Muslim widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre.
• C. Custom of a Christian widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre.
• D. Custom of a Parsi widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre.

Answer 1

The correct option is A Custom of a Hindu widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre.

Sati was a custom or act of a Hindu widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre. It was not until 1861 that Sati was legally banned in all the princely states of India.