Sati Collection

The Queen of Nepaul, 1857. Creator: Unknown
The Queen of Nepaul, 1857. The Queen of the late Rajah was the daughter of a Goruckpore, formerly of low birth, but possessed of great talent for intrigue, which was her ruin

Un usage d'Inde, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un usage d'Inde, 19th century. Comment on the Hindu custom of suttee: My dear friend, I have just paid you the sincerest compliment...our prince is good and dead

A Suttee, 1845. Creator: D Roberts
A Suttee, 1845. Mourners on the ghats by the River Ganges, India. Suttee or sati was a Hindu funeral practice in which the widow immolated herself on her husband's funeral pyre

Shiva Carries the Corpse of Sati, ca. 1865-75. Creator: Unknown
Shiva Carries the Corpse of Sati, ca. 1865-75. Pilgrims and devotees would have purchased such paintings as this one from craftsmen who worked around Calcuttas Kalighat temple

A Hindu Custom Now Suppressed: Preparations for a Suttee, 1908. From Harmsworth History of the World, Volume 2, by Arthur Mee, J.A. Hammerton, & A.D. Innes, M.A. [Carmelite House, London, 1908]

The favourite wife of Afzul Khan preparing for the suttee, 1847. Artist: Giles
The favourite wife of Afzul Khan preparing for the suttee, 1847. Suttee was an Indian funeral practice in which the widow immolated herself on her husbands funeral pyre

Ceremony of burning a Hindu widow with the body of her late husband, 1847. Suttee was an Indian funeral practice in which the widow immolated herself on her husbands funeral pyre

Widow Burning in India, 1728. Artist: Picart, Bernard (1673?1733)
Widow Burning in India, 1728. From a private collection

Widow of a Brahmin committing suttee on her husbands funeral pyre, India, 1815. Despite attempts made from the 16th century to stop this practice

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