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>From Michael Witzel (everybody can check the news on the net):

 

SATI IN PANNA, SHIELDED BY THE FAITHFUL & WITNESSED BY SONS

 

by TAPAS CHAKRABORTY

 

Aug. 6:

 

Fifteen years after Roop Kanwar was forced to commit sati in

Rajasthan's Deorala, Guttu Bai plunged into the leaping flames of her

husband's pyre as an entire village in Madhya Pradesh erupted in

celebration and her two sons stood as spectators.

 

Moments into the incident, the village of timid onlookers in Panna

district, about 300 km from Bhopal, worked up a frenzy, dancing, chanting

hymns celebrating sati and virtually converting the faceless crematorium

into a makeshift temple.

 

After Mallu Nayya, 70, a backward class member of Patnatamoli

village, died last night, his widow Guttu declared she would commit sati. A

section of villagers from another caste informed Saleha police station,

about 8 km away.

 

Deputy superintendent of police S.H. Ghose reached the village with

his team even as the pyre was being lit amid beating drums and kirtans.

 

Ghose tried to stop Guttu as she lunged for the pyre after certain

rituals. But a couple of hundred villagers helped her wriggle out. The

policemen were treated to a shower of stones and brickbats, and Ghose fell

unconscious. Guttu Bai's sons did nothing to save their mother.

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Dr. Enrica Garzilli

University of Macerata

Editor-in-Chief, IJTS & JSAWS

http://www.asiatica.org

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Here is a different version of the same news-item - notice the

differences, e.g., the team in Tapas Chakraborty's news-item is

two policemen in the Hindu article; the village is now deserted,

etc.

 

 

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/08/07/stories/2002080704880100

..htm

`Sati' in M.P. village

 

Bhopal Aug. 6. In an incident of `sati', a 65-year-old woman sat on

the funeral pyre of her husband today and died of burns, at a

village in Madhya Pradesh's Panna district.

 

Police said Mallu Nai died at Tamoli Patna village after a prolonged

illness.

 

On coming to know that his wife, Kuttu Bai, intended to commit

`sati', two policemen from Saleha rushed to the area but were

stoned by the villagers. Kuttu Bai's two grown-up sons did not

attempt to prevent her from sitting on the pyre.

 

The village is now deserted and further information about the

incident will be known only after the people return, police said

adding that a group of senior officials had rushed to Tamoli Patna.

— PTI

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