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Mughal Emperor Akbar on the Hindu custom of Sati

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Post by Guest Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:06 pm

It is a strange comment on the magnanimity of men that they should seek their deliverance through the self sacrifice of their wives.

--Mughal Emperor Akbar, as quoted in Book 3 of Abul Fazal's Ain-i-Akbari.

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Post by Guest Wed Sep 24, 2014 12:24 pm

"The burning of widows is your custom. But my nation's custom is to hang all men involved in burning a woman alive. So let us all act according to our national customs."

--Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853), British General, to Hindu priests who approached him with the complaint that Hindus should be allowed to follow their religious customs

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