Re: [nukkad] some similarities of Religions

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

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>
> Ref: Not sure why the British didnt touch the 4 wives-rule though. I am
> sure
> they had good reasons.
>
> ****
> By and large they never cared to interfere in the religious affairs,
> social customs

   etc. of native Indians. Their prime motive was to exploit India
economically like
   their other colonial possessions. In any case, they undertook to abolish
evil social
   practices only when they were ensured some support from the sufferers
themselves.
   Lord William Bentick's name shines above all Englishman. To see an end to
sati
   custom once he reached a dusty village in Central Provinces ( I forget
name ),
   camped there for days bearing all sorts of discomforts of a tent in the
middle of
   Indian summer. Bentick, despite his firmness had to concede after two
weeks when
   the prospective Sati, a widowed Rajput woman gave up food and made clear
her resolve
   to die of hunger.
   To prevent the village going berserk over the issue, Bentick atlast
permitted this last
   sati dying on the burning pyre and in exchange took hard promise from the
village
   and community leaders not to allow any more sati acts, failing which they
were
   threatened with the severest punishment. And his plan worked. That
brought the
   deadly custom by and large to an end in the C.P. ( today's M.P.),save
occassional
   secret incidents which might have taken place.

   Rohit Zaveri.

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