The Dalit Voice

Brahmins claim they were never involved in practices like Sati Pratha. But look at this 1793 engraving, which depicts Brahmins leading the procession, playing musical instruments at the forefront of a widow’s journey to the funeral pyre.

History deserves to be confronted, not denied.

Source: British Library, Procession of a Hindoo Woman to the Funeral Pile of Her Husband (1793), Plate 9, Travels in India by William Hodges, engraved by William Skelton.