
Sandeep Kumar
792 posts







While Muslim leaders could not ban the practice of Sati in Muslim India, they did put in laws to heavily discourage and limit it. François Bernier writes in 1891: The number of victims is less now than formerly; the Mahometans, by whom the country is governed, doing all in their power to suppress the barbarous custom. They do not, indeed, forbid it by a positive law, because it is a part of their policy to leave the idolatrous population which is so much more numerous than their own in the free exercise of its religion; but the practice is checked by indirect means. No woman can sacrifice herself without permission from the governor of the province in which she resides, and he never grants it until he shall have ascertained that she is not to be turned aside from her purpose; to accomplish this desirable end the governor reasons. with the widow and makes her enticing promises; after which, if these methods fail, he sometimes sends her among his women, that the effect of their remonstrances may be tried. Notwithstanding these obstacles, the number of self-immolations is still very considerable, particularly in the territories of the Rajas, where no Mahometan governors are appointed. " Francois Burnier: Travels in the Mogul Empire ( 1891 ), pp. 306-7











Muslims can’t free their women from the burqa, but they gave freedom to Hindu women, Sati was abolished by Hindus themselves, and this is how you treat women like slaves 🤡










Drowning Indian posts will continue until morale improves. It's the lack of action by their friends each time that gets me.

















