Charles James Napier Quotes

Be It So. This Burning Of Widows Is Your Custom; Prepare The Funeral Pile. But My Nation Has Also A Custom. When Men Burn Women Alive We Hang Them, And Confiscate All Their Property. My Carpenters Shall Therefore Erect Gibbets On Which To Hang All Concerned When The Widow Is Consumed. Let Us All Act According To National Customs.[To Hindu Priests Complaining To Him About The Prohibition Of Sati Religious Funeral Practice Of Burning Widows Alive On Her Husband's Funeral Pyre.]

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