OH so it is India still do this put widow in buring fire with her late husband ashes
What? In any case, in India it tends to have more to do with someone dating outside their caste. Then there are the 5000 or so killed (usually doused in cooking oil and set on fire) because their dowries aren't big enough.
That was outlawed by the BRITISH. Another example of how the dirty colonialists imposed their values upon a native peoples.
That practice no longer exists in India today.
Search for 'sati' on Wikipedia for details..Ironically it also an entry also mentions:
Hindu scholars such as Prabhat Varun have tried to show [28] that Sati was not part of Hindu doctrine at all, but a practice of voluntary immolation by Hindu women as a means to avoid the humiliation and stigma associated with rape. The argument is that the practice came into effect during the Islamic invasion of India, to protect their honor from Muslims who were known to commit mass rape on the women of cities that they could capture successfully. It is argued that the prevalence of sati has been exaggerated by Europeans and Muslims as a canard against Hinduism.