Patrick u seem to give only one sided info about this. This is illegal now n was almost all voluntary in old times done by highly proud rajput warrior women. Currently it is very very rare .
Here is why. There are mentions of this prior to 1900 and it is because of Muslims invaders, when they took over Sindh area around 1300s currently in pakistan, they took all women n sent them back to middle east as slaves n whores. Lessons were learned, in future spoils of war , women wont be tropies. Many women of high born warrior class choose to die over becoming whores of Muslims. Once impregnated it also gave more Muslim children's. Women choose to this sati, men were mostly killed so women did this themselves.
From stories of crusades, you know how brutal muslim invasion can be. Besided broad types hindus, Sikh women were killed or raped such, current punjab on pakistan side was full of sikh, now all are killed n women taken over. No sikhs in pakistan left. That note is for farmerwon-brainwashed by one-sided media. To deal with muslim, Hindu created sikhs. Sikh first guru was hindu, first sons of hindu joined sikhs to fight Muslims. In 1947, sikhs were saved again by india when they were killed in pakistan.
This is Johar sati , dramatized . From 1500s history.
Don't forget west used to burn women because thought women were wiches. Pilgrims who moved to us to prevent religious prosecution themselves burned lot of women. If women talked back or questioned men , they declared them wiches.
When you quote colonizer Charles James napier, remember he is of mindset that he is better then the people he colonized. He is not in EU, so he has no right to question local rules. Key point is they needed reason to confiscate property , so came up with laws to occupy n steal.
My take on sati pratha. Suicide is considered wrong in any religion same as in Hinduism.
But women who wanted to die with their husband were give a way out if they couldn't bear the grief.
When a women wants to commit sati, she had to take permission from everyone in her family. She had to convince everyone that her step is right step for her.
Her family used to worship her for many generations for her bravery.
For islamic invasion it was called Johar. Here women used to jump in fire because even if they died in any means their bodies were violated by islamic hordes as they were famous for necrophilia.
Hindu coward men failed to defend anything and made women just “dick worshipping” worthless servants of Hindu rapist priests. So neither them or their women can become fighters.
Hindu women chose Muslim men to marry but Hindu were intolerant and would rather have them die or fight. Slavery is base of Hindu.
Rather than dying by suicide, Wives of brave do this:
Here is why.
There are mentions of this prior to 1900 and it is because of Muslims invaders, when they took over Sindh area around 1300s currently in pakistan, they took all women n sent them back to middle east as slaves n whores. Lessons were learned, in future spoils of war , women wont be tropies. Many women of high born warrior class choose to die over becoming whores of Muslims. Once impregnated it also gave more Muslim children's. Women choose to this sati, men were mostly killed so women did this themselves.
From stories of crusades, you know how brutal muslim invasion can be. Besided broad types hindus, Sikh women were killed or raped such, current punjab on pakistan side was full of sikh, now all are killed n women taken over. No sikhs in pakistan left. That note is for farmerwon-brainwashed by one-sided media. To deal with muslim, Hindu created sikhs. Sikh first guru was hindu, first sons of hindu joined sikhs to fight Muslims. In 1947, sikhs were saved again by india when they were killed in pakistan.
This is Johar sati , dramatized . From 1500s history.
https://youtu.be/p3NGvGLAi9U?si=0-f0x8hBjU_1J4gN