1800s Archive · World cities

Suttee pillar at a Benares Burning Ghat, where Hindu widows died on their husbands' funeral pyres

India · 1903

Suttee pillar at a Benares Burning Ghat, where Hindu widows died on their husbands' funeral pyres, India, 1903
Suttee pillar at a Benares Burning Ghat, where Hindu widows died on their husbands' funeral pyres, India, 1903. World cities — The 1800s Archive, from the Library of Congress record.

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