Sati Was Not Abolished in 1829 — That Was Only the Final Blow: Its Abolition Was a Process, Not a Moment. ~Sumon Mûkhöpadhuæy ================= When history is taught crooked, it walks straight into the human psyche and parks there permanently. Undoing it takes generations — not Google searches . The real tragedy of distorted history is not mere misinformation. It is conditioning. Once absorbed, false narratives harden into cultural memory. They stop being questioned. They start being believed. The abolition of Sati is a classic example. Popular storytelling reduces it to a single heroic moment, a single reformer, a single law — as if social change arrives overnight with a signature. It did not. Long before British legislation, several Indian and foreign rulers had already taken steps — gradual, imperfect, yet undeniably real — to curb the practice. The legal end came in 1829. The struggle began centuries earlier. And what has been quietly erased in between is where histo...
