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Posted: 09 Jul 2011

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Sati (suttee) wall, Bikaner Fort

Sati (suttee) wall, Bikaner Fort
Handprints of widowed ranis (queens) who passed through the gate on their journey to immolate themselves on their husbands' blazing funeral pyres.

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 Aixa
Aixa
Si, una historia terrible!...pero que foto magnífica!***
12 years ago.
Diana Australis club has replied to Aixa
Gracias, I feel very emotional when I see these walls in India. I am sad for the fate of the women.
12 years ago.
 Diana Australis
Diana Australis club
They are very confronting. Just because the husband died, they had to burn themselves to death! Thank goodness it is not so now!
10 years ago.

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