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A social funeral practice created in 400 A.D. during the Indian Gupta empire, where a widowed woman would immolate herself over her husband's funeral pyre. By the tenth century it was widespread throughout India though it was used in a lower frequency. It was banned by the British in the eighteenth century for obvious reasons.
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