2-889-447 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'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. From "Hindostan, The Shores of the Red Sea, and The Himalaya Mountains, Vol. II". [Fisher, Son & Co., London, 1845]