heroical victory OR heroic death

Got deeply inspired by the custom of jauhar / johar ,the self immolation of queens with their kids to guard their " pride "


i opine, that it is a right action for ' such a situation ' but because of some ...##### ..,this might have become the root for the emergence of brutal sati system...isn't it ??

" the evolution of bad from something i.e started for the sake of societal good " like varna system [ If I'm not mistaken....]

[haa one more... Seppuku of japan.....final ga nenu elane pota emoo..ani i somehow feel ..hehee ]


" For a religious community that strongly associates its honour with the

the purity of its women, death is the obvious choice over rape, conversion, or

abduction, because losing one’s religion would constitute a symbolic death,

considered to be far worse than the reality of death itself. Furthermore, during

communal riots where women’s bodies became the most potent and symbolic

targets, suicides committed by women were seen as heroic acts of religious

pride, requiring courage and valour. The women were considered martyrs who

had sacrificed themselves to safeguard their families’ (and community’s)

honour. A well-documented case of such an instance comes from the village of

The Khalsa, Rawalpandi5 where ninety Sikh women committed suicide by

jumping into a well to prevent rape and abduction by Muslims. Narratives about

these women come from men (usually family members who had survived), and

there always seems to be an insistence that the suicides were necessary and

were committed voluntarily (Butalia 1998: 210). These women are now

remembered as heroes who perished to protect their religion’s purity from

getting tarnished. Butalia claims that during her interviews with survivors of

partition riots, she found that many women did actively engage in violence "