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	Sati (practice) - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_%28practice%29 Article and a collection of references.
	Kamat: The Tradition of Sati in India - http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/hindu/sati.htm Sati is the traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
	Sati - Burning of the Hindu widow - http://adaniel.tripod.com/sati.htm Describes the history of this practice, the origins, and recent history.
	Burning Widows Alive - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/roy.html An imaginary essay on the practice of widows being burnt alive on their husband's funeral pyres.
	The Representation of Sati - http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/hardgrave/Satiart.rft.html Includes a number of drawings by the Flemish artist Baltazard Solvyns from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, together with extracts from European accounts.

	Women In The Sacred Laws - The Later Law Books - http://www.hindubooks.org/women_in_the_sacredlaws/the_later_lawbooks/page1.htm An extract from a work by Shakuntala Rao Shastri. Includes early history of the practice, and the way that the treatment of sati came to differ from treatment of other forms of suicide.
	'Horror of Sati' or Tyranny of the Elect? - http://hamsa.org/tyranny-elect.htm On the lack of true dialogue or discussion on the traditions behind sati and related issues.

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