Week 13 - Extra Credit - Wikipedia Trail - Sati (practice) to Partition of India

For this trails I started with a suggestion Laura gave me in her comments on my last story. She said that the story of Sati and Shiva tied into the practice of Sati/Suttee which I had only ever heard of as suttee. So the first article I looked at was Sati (practice).
 Sati or Suttee is an ancient practice where a widow immolates herself at her husbands funeral. To me the practice seemed like a truly tragic waste of life. The idea that it was glorified and encouraged for so long was disheartening. Out of all the images I thought the following one was particularly interesting.

Sati Ceromony
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)

From this site I followed a link to the Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829. I wanted to know how, when, and to what extent to practice had been regulated or stopped. Basically under British India the practice was outlawed in all provinces by 1829. The image that stood out the most in this article was the following. 



Plaque of the Last Legal Sati 
en.wikipedia.org

After reading this article I was curious to know exactly what territories where including in "British India". I clicked on a link to Presidencies and Provinces of British India. Turns out either the East India Trading Company or the actual Crown controlled most of India until about 1947. The following picture is a map of British India in 1909.



Map of British India in 1909
en.wikipedia.org

After reading about British India I wanted to know exactly when and how the occupation ended. So I clicked on an articled titled Partition of India. Before reading this article I hadn't realized how intergal Pakistan originally was in India. This whole trail was very enlightening and peaked my interest to know more about the British Occupation and its end.