1. Influence of Hinduism on Indian society
These people continue to live in horrendously appalling conditions with the absence of many of their basic human rights but because of the belief in society that those in lower classes deserve this because of the law of karma, these injustices are seen are socially accepted. ... Suttee (literally 'virtuous woman') is a sacrifice a widow was supposed to make voluntarily by which was burnt on her husband's funeral pyre or otherwise live in disgrace for the rest of her life (Whiting, 2005). ...
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