Question

What was the practice of Sati?

• A. Killing of girl children at birth
• B. Enforced widowhood for life
• C. Modern education to women
• D. Burning of the widow

Answer 1

The correct option is D Burning of the widow

Sati is the practice through which widows are voluntarily or forcibly burned alive on their husbands funeral pyre. It was considered to be the signature act of a dutiful wife, who would want to follow her husband into the afterlife. It portrayed that women had worth only in relation to men. This illustrated women's lack of status as individuals in India.