INDIAN GIRL WIDOW
SUTTEE ATTEMPTED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Calcutta, August 28. Overcome with grief at the death of her husband aged 24, a girl aged 16 at Diamond Harbour, Calcutta, attempted suttee. She threw herself on the blazing pyre, clinging to the burning body. Mourners rescued her senseless and extensively burned.
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Southland Times, Issue 22107, 30 August 1933, Page 7
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52INDIAN GIRL WIDOW Southland Times, Issue 22107, 30 August 1933, Page 7
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