This is the Parliament of India's own statute, the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, passed in the wake of the death of Roop Kanwar at Deorala in 1987, penalizing both the commission and the abetment of sati and, separately under section 5, its glorification. As the enacting body's own primary legal text it is the correct source for what the law actually prohibits and under what provisions. Its limit is that it states the legal prohibition itself, not a historical or sociological account of the Deorala incident or of sati's actual historical practice and abolition history, so a claim about that wider history needs a historical source alongside the statute.
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The Parliament of India's own enacted statute, the legislature's own primary legal text, treated at the top tier as that primary institutional record. NotesPassed in the wake of the death of Roop Kanwar at Deorala in 1987. It penalises the commission and the abetment of sati and, separately under section 5, its glorification.
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AuthorParliament of India
Publication Year1988
Source TypeStatute
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Sati, Deities This source names Sati directly: "India's own statute, the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, passed in the wake of the death of Roop Kanwar at Deorala in 1987, penalizing both the commission and the abetment of sati and..."
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