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| Keywords: Sati ceremony.jpg en The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings This one depicts the practice of sati suttee or widow-burning The word is the Sanskrit for 'good woman' or 'true wife' It was applied to the Hindu widow who makes the supreme sacrifice by following her husband onto the funeral pyre Although suppressed in the 19th century isolated instances of sati still occur in India even today circa 1800 painted ca 1800 made http //collections vam ac uk/item/O15842/painting-sati-ceremony/ Unknown production PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Sati Company style Art of India in the Victoria and Albert Museum | ||||
