Kinsley Graphic, 1899
“SAVED FROM SUTTEE”
“How a Hindoo Woman, Now an American, Escaped from a Horrible Heathen Sacrifice”
“Mrs. Ramee Lalros... arrived in Chicago recently from India via Yokohama and San Francisco, with her husband.”
#HindooHistory
“SAVED FROM SUTTEE”
“How a Hindoo Woman, Now an American, Escaped from a Horrible Heathen Sacrifice”
“Mrs. Ramee Lalros... arrived in Chicago recently from India via Yokohama and San Francisco, with her husband.”
#HindooHistory
Mrs. Lalros...was about to become the victim to the terrible suttee of her caste when reduced by the man who afterward would become her husband” in
“At the age of 11, just on the eve of the children’s marriage, the youth of 13 who was to be the bridegroom died and... according to the irrevocable laws of her caste, she was doomed to be burned on the funeral pyre”
“Led by a relative, Ramee walked slowly down the bank to play her tragic part in the ceremony... a Brahmin priest stood at the head of the body— the scene is before me now as if it were but yesterday— and he directed proceedings in the coolest manner possible”
“She hesitated, she trembled, and by the command of the priest two men were about to throw her on the blazing pyre, when the officer commanding the detachment, a young man with a soft heart, ordered his men to charge...”
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