Few days back I saw a quote : It takes from 15 - 20 years to demoralise a nation ... This is the minimum no. of years to educate one generation of students - Yuri Bezmenov ( Former KGB ) Now Imagine what kind of destruction to the society's mindset the British during colonial period followed by the Congress rule after independence in the span of > 200 years had caused . But I believe that since the dusk is always followed by dawn and hence we will definately be going to make things work in our own way through our hardwork in the coming future .
It wasn’t 200 years. 150 of them were by the EIC. They didn’t do the complete governance until after 1857 rebellion. Up until that it was the corporation that was ruling India, not the British crown.
@@swapnil7521 You don’t need to know their top secrets to know what their basic agenda is. Best doesn’t mean u know EVERYTHING about them. Best as in he knows better than anyone else that’s not part of the organization. Plus, he didn’t need to b high ranking to understand their patterns and what every KGB agent was expected to do and know.
Don't forget the Islamic & Portugese genocides, both, of Hindus as well as their literature & culture. It's the greatest wonder of this planet - that we even survive - SANAATAN DHARMA is the savior, nothing else explains it.
@@PaulAllen6304 use aatm daah bolte hai .Sati sati sati kya hutipa laga rakha hai. Kaun apno ko jala dega bhai😂 .Unke history mein koi sense h nhi hai.
@@redskullx3384 secluding hindus from their society by forming a separate cult is equivalent to converting hindus thats why we have so many anti hindus pro jihadis with hindu names
@@fikru3759 hindu society cant even hurt an ant let alone burning a person that too alive ! hindu society respect women the most in the whole world unlike abrahmic who consider women as soulless brainless and what not
I am from a Rajput family, no one has committed sati in my family.I used to glorify ram mohan Roy but sir you opened my eyes. I'm thankful to Gurudev Abhijit chavda ji that this video is reaching to many of the Indians.
He told it was voluantary choice .then why not mandodari ,kunti do it. Why not satyavati did it .Then why king daaratha wives did it .Similarly there are many examples
@nine tailed lol are you not listening or its your hatred towards Heathens stopping you from seeing reality? Some women out of their personal preference did commit Sati while others don't do it. That's why the wives of King Dashrath didn't commit Sati in Ramayana and many widows in Mahabharata didn't commit Sati. And people try to stop them just like the father in-law of Rani Ahilyabai Holkar stopped her from doing Sati lol
@nine tailed maybe one should not give opinion on others deed of past. You are not the person from past. You are just an observer giving opinion about random people whom you don't know. Regarding men... dude men fought the battles in real. They were not playing playstation battle games then.
@nine tailedThe very first line of your question itself gives the answer man. Pandu's wife Madri commited sati then why didn't his other wife kunti? This shows that it's their personal choice.. no one forced Madri to perform sati. Feeling lost without her better half, she felt like doing so! If you are predetermined to not be open to the truth, you'll spend the rest of your life as ignorant. Before criticising analyse! Don't believe in words of others you yourself search for the answers from scriptures.
@Howard Roark jauhar was done to safeguard the respect from the Turks and sati was done to follow your husband in alterlife. Our community is gloriously known for jauhar . Jai rajputana. Don't give your fucking knowledge to whom whose ancestors have done it for their honour.
@@ladagspa2008 by mentioning Europe I meant to say that forceful burning of women was done by them and Portuguese were also one of those and they did the same here when they colonized Goa
Forget my family, no one in my village has ever commited sati. Old Grannies of around 95 years have never told us such stories. They always told how strong they were during Independence times !!!! This became the main reason why I was always confused that if we were so backward then how we had such women warriors !!!
@@parimalmourya1876 For two reasons: 1)Rani Laxmibai was not in a sati struck region 2) Sati was already disappearing during her time as it was made illegal due to the efforts made by social reformers. Sati was enforced only in Sati struck regions mostly in the northern plains. Of course not everyone was burned but doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There are many accounts to prove so and it is a historically known fact in places where it did exist, eg Bengal. And it was already banned by the government in 1829 after the persuasion of Ram Mohan.
@@notnotiron maharani ahilyabai holkar? Maharani jijau. And why the place where British ruled (Bengal) was a sati stuck state? And the cases of places other than Bengal are not more than 300.
I'm from odisha i never known anyone from my family branch ever committed sati or jwahar. My father can tell his grand father's grandfather's father name and also and our family history. And he never told me anything like sati. Even my father's grandma is widow and she brought up her children alone.
I am from Bengal myself and I asked the same question to my great grand mother 7-8 years back (She is no more unfortunately) that if she witnessed or heard of such practice from her own parents or grandparents. The answer is the same, "They (Her elders) heard this but never seen this happening to any close relative of theirs." Edit: I wanna add one more thing here. If you ever go through any Mangal Kavya like Manasa Mangal, Chandi Mangal, Dharma Mangal which are gems of Bengali literature from Medieval Age you won't find any mention of this forced immolation (Which is called 'Sati daho Protha' in Bengali).
@@BrownBengalee Kothaye? Where it is. Hey dude no offence just think there was sati and they used to burned women with her husband. Then for whom they made all this fucking bidhoba laws, that women will wear sari , not any red bindi means lal tip in bengal. My question is if there were no widows then for whom the widow laws are made boss.. Ektu bhebe jobab deben please ami apnake choto korte chaichi na..
@@BrownBengalee I have no idea about what happened anywhere else. But this is the history of my family. I have learnt it from my elders that they haven't seen this brutal practice to happen with any of their relatives. There is no record of any widow immolating herself shortly after her husband's demise at least in my family.
@@PaulAllen6304 just tell me one simple thing if sati pratha was happening back then , means wife were burned alive after death of her husband, That means no Widows were left back then , than tell me for whom they made all this Widow laws like women's will wear only white saree , no red bindi, no non veg foods. Etc Can u explain..?
@@PaulAllen6304 Yes he formed brahmo samaj I know. The thing is..ppl overexaggerated the things about him. Abhijit sir is also saying on that basis. I saw an article somewhere which claimed RRMR used to run around different samsans to see if any woman is burned or not...LOL. I saw another anti-hindu article which claimed RRMR said Sanskrit is a bad language..meant to imprison the masses.
History is not reading what is obvious,its interpreting what is between the lines... I can listen to Abhijit Sir for eternity, one never gets bored of wisdom,you see!
I have literally become aware of history, polity, geography, social issues more than ever. Whatever I studied there is worthless than what I am learning on this channel, providing such precious knowledge for free, breaking myths, inculcating our culture once again! 🙏
I almost have tears in my eyes. For so long I believed the textbooks, and looked at my own culture in a grey light. Thankyou very much Abijeet. You are not only the eye opener, but a light to the misguided.
I went to Bara Bagh in Jaisalmer. They have Chhatris for the Rajputs. There you can see Satis. But I have nowhere else found this custom in place. Sati is indeed a British Missionary agenda.
no he's not, this is just revisionst history, throughout indian history Muslim leaders also tried to outlaw this barbaric practice, it didn't suddenly show up with the British.
@@zahidkhan5733 get the f out of here zahil khan ur ancestors raped women and tht is why women had to burn themselves in order to save themselves from the likes of u
@Ahamasmi Sanatani I see. But law was passed in the beginning of 19th century. Your grandmother must have been born & married after 19th century and by then many who practiced it earlier would have left it.
The same kind of tactics were used in America (USA, as most aren't aware that anyone who is from North, South, or Central America is technically an American. Lol) Washington was a British general, and part of the Gentry class. He was also one of the wealthiest people in America upon marrying his wife, who's father was the owner of the largest amount of land in America at the time. The Torries or British Loyalists in America were very problematic for the US forming, and seceding from the British empire.) It is most important for anyone to be a Nationalist in their own country!! Let me rephrase that, it's most important for anyone, be they an American, Indian, or anyone else, to be proud of their UNIQUE National identity. That means knowing your own country's accurate history, and *BEING AN ASSET to your country. Not s person who is ashamed of who they are, or allows and tolerates others speaking ill of your country and it's people!* You have a voluminous knowledge of things, I pray that India succeeds and becomes prosperous! *Much respect and love from* 😎🇺🇸
@@d.cypher2920 you are right dude, it is a simple strategy of british to divided and rule. They separate people of the country (which they rule) from their own culture and try to make them shame of their identity. Same they did in india, they tried to vanish history of great indian emperors who ruled the world and wanted indians to think that indians have no glorious past and they were ruled by other. However, the truth is that foreign invaders managed to capture india in just 11 th century and even foreign invaders not captured full india, they just managed to capture northern india at a time when india was politically unstable. Before that for thousands of years indian emperors ruled indian and had a monopoly in regions of thousands of kilometers across regions of india. For example, there was a great indian emperor vikramaditya, he ruled almost 60 percent of asia for 100 years around 100BC. Empire of vikramaditya included modern day middle east, Turkey, UAE, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, iran, Iraq, pakistan, full india, and almost half of china and Hinduism was major religion in all this region. Blue coloured area was his empire- images.app.goo.gl/KnxZNkqbrUHZTpLm8 There were many kings like him in past who ruled like boss till they lived but their history was tried to be vanished by british and islamic rulers and nowdays a few people know about them. Hopefully one day entire world will know about these great emperors especially vikramaditya. Theses british even tried to vanish owr language sanskrit and hindi, but fortunately they were not successful. But unfortunately they were successful in many other countries, even native Americans dont used to speak english. English was introduced when british captured USA.
I just asked my grandfather and grandmother who are 82 and 79....they have no recollection of any of their ancestors practicing Sati....OMG!! You are right with the facts
You should read the book written by Dr. Meenakshi Jain on sati. Dr. Meenakshi jain is a historian and a padma shri awardee. The name of her book is - "Sati : Evangelicals Baptist Missionaries and the Changing Colonial Discourse" Sati was never a norm.
My great grandmother lost her husband and was remarried - she had one child (my grandfather) who was adopted and brought up by her mother... This clearly shows we were progressive and only a few communities didn't allow widow remarriage but there was no 'Sati' even there...
@@shobhamourya8396 go Banaras and mathura and see the conditions of windows...he is teaching wrond history and u r listening....Kya hi hoga is desh ka....apni kamiya to sunna hi ni chahte...Kal wo kh dega ki caste system h hi ni and San man lege
I have recently passed 10 and the saddest part about cbse is that we were constantly hammered that how backward our indianculture was and how there was discrimination amongst hindus , and on the other hand foreign invaders like Tipu Sultan and Akbar are glorified who actually were a nightmare for the country and hindus. This all was done through the medium of ncert textbooks , which are not even updated since many years and there are many errors in them but we have to write wrong answers to get good marks
All I remember from my highschool History classes, taught from NCERT textbooks are about Mughals, Ram Mohan Roy and some irrelevant-for-India French Revolution. I feel totally ashamed I didn't hear /remember a single thing about Marathas or Rajaputs or the Mauryan empire
Nothing about Great Cholas who extended whole of south east Asia, and also Pandyas, and Vijayanagara with Hampi richest medieval cities that Europeans who visited wrote. Maybe just a few lines in book
About marathas....go through series of sabitribai phule of doordarshan...u will understand...the extent of blind faith,brahminism,casteism and women harrashment prevalent at that time ...
You are the flag bearer of the 'eye opening clan' in present day India, Sir. Please keep educating us, so that we can try and educate others, further .
Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse by Meenakshi Jain is a scholarly book on this topic and it will clear many misconceptions about Sati
Your channel is answering many questions i have been asking to my teachers( none of them were able to reply obviously).After visiting your channel i realized that , those so called bad customs of Bharat were actually a well scripted conspiracies against us .May Maa Saraswati keep showering her blessings on you ,Sir. Best wishes.....
First time I learnt about Sati I asked "isn't that what goddess Sati did?" And my teacher replied that the malpractice was practiced and Mata Sati's name was misused as justification, but it didn't spread to the South (I'm a South Indian). I have always been sceptic about the social textbooks from childhood, because I noticed how they introduced us to democracy with a utopian image but they only showed the negative aspects of Monarchy and dictatorship, and as a kid who adored kings, I found this to be irritating. And yet, even after all the scepticism, I still ended up believing in sati and the greatness of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Shows how efficient the British system is at brainwashing us since childhood
christians who used to burn thousands to millions of widow women in witch hunting became sadhu in india and abolished so called social evil 😂 it's just like saying rapists are protecting women or terrorists are advocating for global peace or that stepmother is very kind 😂😅
We Odia and Assamese share border with Bengal..Kings of Odisha and Assam have maintained medieval historical records..There were no Sati Pratha in Odisha and Assam..If Sati Pratha was rampant in Bengal.why didn't Odia and Assamese historian mentioned it?It just hogwash by Missionaries.
@@sachinnayaka32 how many cases of Sati Pratha were there in royal families of south India? It was very little in number but missionaries made it like all are forced to commit Sati Pratha..
To this day typical western person says two things when "hindu" is mentioned - sati and caste system. I think this is what they are learning for 250 years about us
Witch burning was an ancient practice in Britain. If a man died, they used to blame his wife for the death, considered her a witch and burned her alive.
this is absolute nonsense. Ancient Celts had great respect for women. Queen Boudicca was widowed but wasnt burnt and was admired by her subjects for fighting the Romans.
Thanks Chavda ji. I am a Bengali still living in kolkata and I am fond of Bengali literature and I have read every Bengali author you can name... Not a single Author writes about the instance of Sati, yet the British claimed that Sati was majorly practiced in Bengal......
You can also read Mangal Kavyas which are Bengali literature of Medieval age like Manasa Mangal, Chandi Mangal, Dharma Mangal to name a few. I swear you won't find a single mention of this forced immolation (Sati Daha Pratha known in Bengali). But nowadays there are some BengaliTV series based on the incidents in 18th century or so showing this Sati Daha Pratha in a way that it was a norm back then.
@@biddobrahmin8643 Vai, Manasa Mangal is a big example to expose all these propaganda. Chand Sadagar lost 6 of his sons one by one to snake bite. And all 6 of his daughter-in-laws became widowed. Interesting thing is they weren't forced to immolate by their in laws. Had this Sati Daha been so commonly practiced it must have some mention in concurrent literature. Isn't it? And besides these pieces were written between 13th and 18th century which coincides with the period when Suttee was widely practiced as claimed by our history textbooks. A literature reflect some a lot of things about the contemporary society and it's practices. But there's no reference of this malpractice in these literatures.
I am a bengali and until now I believed that sati was one of the nastiest truths of our society. I cannot believe we youths are really this ignorant despite of all our education. You Sir, are a gem and a powerhouse of India's age old history. Thank you for putting so much effort and trying this hard to educate the country people with such eye opening breath taking incidents from our history.
You are a Bengali then remember that our ancestors had did great things to make us literate and tried not to get into the trap of such half truth propaganda . Please read rammohan read Bengal's history . And please open your eyes . Don't let these morons to mislead you
I remember asking this question as a kid to my grandmother which was more than 25 years ago. My grandmother who died about 10 years ago at age 99 never saw or heard any of that in her lifetime.
@@rahultiwari-dx8qo If at all these practices existed it was on the East part. We never heard of it in North. There are no evidence of this practice in most other parts either.
@@rahultiwari-dx8qo jaadu ki chaddi thi koi britishers ke paas ki practise lagbagh khatam ho gayi 20th century ke aate aate ...dimaag lagaya karo thoda
I am from Khanakul,Arambagh westbengal. The birth place of Raja Ram Mohon Roy. Also I have never hard about Sati with my ancestors. I had also doubts about this because of nobody can tell about Sati with their ancestors in my area. Now my doubts cleared. Thank you sir. 🙏
I also from khanakul but not Arambagh. My ancestors ruled Khanakul as the Jaigirdar of 34 villages. I have heard stories how the law stopped the social evil. Just think a little girl given in marriage at the age of 11 with a widower man of 50 years in those times. Man dies. Relatives will try to force widow to perform sati.
@@soumyaroy5122 You must have heard from your marxist distorian relatives they say rammohan's bhabhi was victim but rammohan didnt have brother so how did his bhabhi come? even today young girls marry old rich men for money that's greed of ppl not a majburi like how its portrayed
@@soumyaroy5122 making a child marry a old man of age of 50yr is never acceptable only the man with heavy pocket can get such liberty or the child parents be extremely poor to in a way sell there child to rich man by giving name of a marriage but it doesn't make it Sati pratha kind of thing common people can't think of doing such think yes being widow itself was taboo earlier but committing sati was never mandatory .
@@soumyaroy5122 yes performing sati was prevalent in north area like Rajasthan, mp etc but it was only to protect the sanity ,pride of women who if being captured by Islamic invaders were sold,raped and traded as sex slaves in Afghanistan, Iran,turkey like places by Islamic zombies
The Bengal Renaissance leaders and reformers like Dayanand Saraswati all of them batted for western education. All these leaders were well versed with Sanskrit as well as Arabic and Persian languages yet they realised that western education was equally important for that point of time. Moreover Raja Ram Mohan Roy had himself experienced the agony of a sati because his sister-in-law wife of his brother Jagmohan Roy was forced to commit sati. Secondly sati pratha was for the upper caste or the royals. As for Ahilya Devi was concerned Malhar Rao her father-in-law stopped her because he wanted her to be his successor. The other wives of Khande Rao had no other option. Even Ahilya Bai's daughter committed sati. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was always revered as a reformer never a saint. Sir please do not trivialise the contributions of a reformer like Raja Rom Mohan Roy or other reformers of the 19th century. Awating your clarification.
He was a collaborator and traitor. And this supposed incident of Raja Ram Mohan Roy's sister-in-law being forced to commit Sati, is also fake and myth which has been debunked by none other than the great Bengali historian RC Majumdar. Sati was a voluntary death and nothing else. Comparable to sepuku in Japanese society.
Thank you for replying it logically, and I just want to ask very politely that the law of satti was bild 200 year ago in 1828, did anyone knows their's 150 old family history ?
Don't support blindly a british stooge..... because he is the first culprit who is responsible mainly to import nasty western feminist culture through fake sati pratha case and that's why we all boys suffering today by false dowy case, rape case and even extramarital affairs of cheater wives......at that time, he promoted and brainwashed whole indian society by talking about false liberation and independencecy of women so that- in far future, such traditional sanatani women easily converted to modern corrupt feminist and repeatedly pressurize govt and society to make gender-baised gynocentric laws to blackmail innocent boys,father and husband by false fake case(legal terrorism)and extort them mentally,physically,economically what we boy are actually seeing today........before rammohan(british stooge) Era, there was very very rare case of divorce and marital life between husband-wife was divinely good and haven, they trust and fully committed to each other.......but now after rammohan(british stooge) Era,,divorce rate is very high like western culture and cuel feminist wives are earning a huge money by alimony just like corporate institutions............all these are cultivated fruits of west nasty feminism culture which actually started by 250 years ago by this british stooge( rammohan roy) and thus he sowed the seed of destruction of our sanatan traditional culture.......
Achārya Medhātithi (manubhāṣyakāra) says that the act of suicide by a woman after her husband has died is strictly prohibited. If she has a strong desire to do it, she can do it but let her not think what she is doing is scripturally sanctioned.
When I subscribed this channel two weeks back, there was only 95k subscribers only but in few days it crossed 100k and now reached 110k. We need more educators like u Abhijit sir inorder to know how great our nation was. I hope this channel will cross 1M mark as soon as possible.
Sati was very common thing in my area. After reading in my textbook I have asked to many older people of my village and they all said yes sati was prevalent in this area.
It was a choice in some parts of India. It was not forced and was not in large numbers as Britishers portrayed. This kinda parctice was there in many parts of the world in very very small number
Yeah I guess even if it was done it was not an old tradition of India but emerged after the Mughal invasion. And in some parts of India the patriarchal uneducated society took it to another level. But definitely it wasn't at a mass level. Otherwise the sex ratio of the population would be drastically different.
What's ironic is that Europeans were the ones who practiced this thing in the form of witch hunting wherein the widow would be burned alive when her husband died. There are a lot of records of this happening throughout Europe.
@@white-demonn Totally agreed that lots of bad things happened. On the 'witch' thing, it was the church persecuting the old tradition of 'wise woman', aka older ladies without any protector and who also tended to have knowledge that was not 'approved' of by the church. So nothing to do with being a widow as such, just old or non-conformist. Not limited to 'old' though at times, just 'not approved of' by the church or a lynch mob claiming legitimacy.
@@philipdawes2661 When the father of the church had bad intention about any girl or woman, he would declare her a witch. In the naming of curing her, the father would sexually exploit her for certain time and when he was done with this, he would declare her as witch and ordered to burn her alive. The other case used to be when a common women or even a Nun resisted the dictum of the church, the padre had a formidable weapon against her...declaring her a witch or a threat like, the women went silent thereafter. The atrocities of the Church on innocents knows no bounds.
@@satishmaurya3404 Agreed, when men get power over women, some tend to do appalling things in the name of whatever they wish to to 'legitimise' what they do. Makes you ashamed to be a man at times. What happens these days is, mostly, different to what went on historically, but the impact on the woman remains the same :(
Dear Mr. Chavda, in my family, my grandmother's aunt(mother's side) committed sati, with consent of then dy. Vice Roy around 1895. Surprisingly I am from the family of a member of bengal renaissance, ram gopal ghosh. Lived in the same building of his till 2004, just 500 mts from ram mohan's house. We know the truth and many things, but when I tried to speak up these things in past, people around( commies) derogated me. Thankfully the society is opening eyes.
@@rahultiwari-dx8qo yes, u r right, but think of the women mentality with superstitions of 19th century. Also, law is always a prestigious or playable commodity of the privilaged. Though today, I am poor by any standards but the family was & still is of lawyers, judges, officers & business owners. The family had a shipping business of teak from rangoon port to England & crockery fm England among other professions.
I Think when he mentioned about witch hunting u should have guessed who really brought this weird ritual. Idk if u want to hear one sad truth about Europe that, when a man died his wife was blaimed and was regarded as a witch. Google it for sure. When, witch hunting Was mentioned it was clear for a normal mind to guess, that Some of this must have been practiced by some. But some people's minds are so much in love with brits( as doing business for them made them wealthy) that they don't want to look at that.
@@jujutsukaisen2279 just to prove & put this narrative in our mind that Christians are civilized & we were not. Interestingly, if you read Roman history of 1st and 2nd century; there is no reference of any jesus. First reference of him comes only during late 3rd & 4th century. The word history means 'his story' 😊
@@mr.soumyasen8259 I know that already, Romans Took Greek culture and moulded it, Their Zeus became their, Jupiter, what was the point of bringing Riman empire?
Exactly 💯 My forefathers also never mentioned any sati incidents in our family Women in our family were highly educated at 1950s when their were very less colleges And everyone was in job or housemaker by their choice
Octavio Paz on Raja Ram Mohan Roy: “The political movement was preceded by a reform of Hinduism in which the influence of English Christianity was decisive. The leader of this reformation, Ram Mohan Roy, attempted to restore Hinduism to its original purity. Influenced by the ideas of the Unitarian church,he found proof in the sacred texts of Brahmanism thst the true Hindu religion,now reformed by superstition, was no less rigorous than that of the Christians...I am certain that he never realised he was the creator of a pious fraud. To defend Hinduism against the criticism of missionaries, the reformers Christianized it. Their secret religion was Christianity; without knowing or wanting to, they adopted its values”.
@@ritamchakraborty1146 Did you actually read the main comment? If you did, you wouldn't be blabbering like that. Vedas neither promote nor condemn "idol worship". Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a fraud. He tried to Christianize Hinduism
@@ritamchakraborty1146 in veds idol worshipped is neither prohibited nor compulsory. I think you are reading veds from wrong place.if you are reading them
@@aakashmandal1008 True. One had freedom of worship, common people worshipped idols as form of God whereas sages in forests or Himalayas sat in meditation on the formless all pervading Brahman, who is nameless, formless, attributeless yet has all names, forms, attributes, the beginning and the end
My maternal grandfather was from chandradweep , east Bengal he was an M.A in history .... He said in the Eastern part nobody ever heard of a sati in his village !!...
Yes. I too found Chavda sir on Ranveer's channel. I am glad that someone is making us aware of the real history of our country. I have become huge fan of Chavda sir. Our history text books need to be rewritten.
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#AskAbhijit 1.) Are BCE, CE , AD, BC correct to use. 2.) Is ancient Indian calendar or method for finding dates more precise. 3.) In reality which year is going on.
AAdya bhrahmana, dwitiya parardhe, shri Shwetavaraaha kalpe, Vaivaswata manvantare, kali yuge, prathama charane, Bharata Varshe, Bharata khande, Jambu dweepe, Dandakaranye deshe, godavarya, dakshine teere, shaalivaahana shake, बौद्ध avatare, राम kshetre, asmin vartamaane, chandramaanena, plava naama samvatsarasya, uttarayane, greeshma rutau, aashadha maase, shukla पक्ष, shashthi thithau, bruhaspati vaasare, That's the magnanimity of indian calender system.... with differences, in Vikram samvat and Shaka samvat... else all is precise, It accounts for space and time as one. The above sankalp is done everyday thrice before sandhya Vandana is performed This actually signifies the wisdom of our fore fathers ... who said the place and time ... space and time in above mantra is referred as one.
Sir, My ancestors were war generals and revenue officers in the Bikaner kingdom. Around 3 or 4 committee sati but that was by choice because their history is written in different text. That time written text mentioned that "No one forces them to committee but they were forcing them to not commit sati". Sati was not like burning them forcibly, our great Pati-Vrata Nari choose this because they don't want that anybody else touches them after their husband. For this, there is a very famous line written by the rajasthani poet " केहरी केश, भुजंग मान, सरनाई सोहड़ा, सती पायोधर, कृपाण धन, पडी हाथ मुवाह". Means hairs of a lion, Jem of snakes(Sarp-maņi), a person who takes asylum from a warrior, The zenith of a virtuous woman, and the Money of a miser only gets in your hand after they died. So in short please read about the depth and then make your decision.
Exactly my mother saying this from the beginning first when I was in class 10 I argue with her (although my mother had done double MA in History) . Now I agree with her
All non bengalis would be amazed to hear that even Sarat Chandra Chattopadhay didn't even mentioned the word or deed of sati in his fictions and non fiction.... Sarat chandra ji was a fiery writer before Rabindranath who wrote against the social injustices that prevailed in early british bengal..... Sarat ji especially wrote against the injustices hurled at women, he wrote many novels on child marriage but never even mentioned sati.... Take for example, Bankimchandra Chattopadhay, he too never mentioned about Sati...... These writers represented the society of Bengal as a whole and if Sati was a prevalent practice, then it would be hard to not find it's mention in their writings....
Totally agree with you. I have read all the novels and short stories by Sarat Chandra. He never mentioned Sati in any of his writings. I don't think he mentioned it even in his essays. It is believed he wrote what he saw happening in society back then. Many of his novels are set in rural Bengal. So I am sure Sati pratha as interpreted by Raja Ram Mohan Roy did not exist. I think the Colonizers twisted the meaning of the word "sati" for their own barbarian divide and rule policies.
@@mauraforever .. Yes, you are correct... Even in his novels, which elaborate the apathy of women in bengali history, doesn't mention even the name of - Sati...
@biddo Brahmin, I was sceptical about the logic. Until, I read your comment. It's quite true. Sarat babu had mentioned about the apathy of widow's and everything else about women in society but never mentioned about Satidaho protha. For that matter, Bankim babu also never mentioned about the same. However, I can't claim I've read all from him.
Sotty kotha bhai kothao nei. I have read all his novels . Obhaginir sorgo, bagdotta, devdas kothao nei ekta line o nei. Eto din dhore gaandu banalo amaderke.. 😭
@@indianancientsage ..... Sudhu eto din na... Ekhono era amader boka baniye jacche...... Amaderke Banglai ekta channel banate hobe, itihas er sotti ta jonosadharon ke jananor jonno...
I learnt in convent school and my history teacher used to mention that Rajputs didn't like girl child and were more favourable towards male child. She even told that small female infants were killed in hot boiled milk. It was not even mentioned anywhere in NCERT books but she used to still say that without quoting any source. There were around 40 kids in our class and she was history teacher in multiple class... year after year.... different class...new set of childrens.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani My convent school wasn't that bad. There was a subject of moral education(once in a week). But then they used to classify it as Christian vs non Christian. We had to gather in different class and only catholic students were taught about christanity. However, many times, various priests used to come to preach. That time all students irrespective of any faith were made to gather and listen their preachings which used to last for more than an hour. They used to tell that Jesus would save you and I used to wonder that Jesus couldn't save his own ass from getting crucified. Lord Shiva on other hand drank poison, saved everyone and still stood strong.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani i also studied in a missionary school . a convent school they do conversion in villages . they used to show us jesus cartoon movies.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani the reason why govt can't take any actions, search in details about Project Joshua & Thessalonica and its reach then you will understand about all this.
Your Channel and your analysis are really mind boggling. I have a become a dead fan of yours. A person like you is indeed needed to save our culture, religion, our nation and dig out our aged old advanced system of life which have been erased from history. We are proud of being Hindusthani.
We are Dogra Rajputs from J&K, I have never heard of such practices in my family lineage both on my mother and father's side. Even though we were untouched by the influence of these so called reformers.
Thank you, Abhijit ji. Never stop making your educational videos. Your clarity is DIRELY needed for generations of Indian students brainwashed by bullshit textbooks in schools/colleges.
The day Liberandu Dhruv Rathee glorified Raja Ram Mohan Roy, I got the doubt that 100% there is something wrong youths are being taught, thanks for solving out doubt sir 🙏🏻
Rathee has a very punchable face. Only idiots must believe that crook who insults traditional customs of India and roams around with his white gf. An actual clown.
@Raj kumar bhatt bro these all are just proud too much about our religion and not seeing it's flaws and accepting them Sati paddati was present even in some places of south india Even though north and south have different cultures Royal families did follow this culture and it was cruel one Those who went against it people like these fools calls them anti hindu or something Do we need such culture who kills lives of innocent one?
@@saloni2244 kind one? Oh yeah That's why they killed brutal Dalits right? Who just mind their own business still kind Brahmins tried to discriminate them
Sati was not so widespread as it was told by British. It was itself popularized in Bengal during the British time only. Earlier Bengal has no such practices called Sati, not even in whole India except among some communities in Rajasthan. Rammohan Roy's brother's wife was the victim of this practice. Then he protested against it. British popularized it and themselves stopped it. WOW!!!
@@Ghijk456 Yeah, you r right. I actually wanted to say that Bengal had no concept of Sati during earlier times, during Palas up to Senas as far as known. In 1818, it reached above 800.
@@punyashloka4946 Yeah, Sati was practiced only among some small communities. When Hiuen Tsang wrote about India he didn't mentioned Sati. Women performed sati on their will not by force during that time
@@itsme6461 sati pratha what I have read that it was started in Sena period not during Pala dynasty......so that means it was started by orthodox hindus???...right??...because the Senas were hindu and they invaded bengal and converted several mahaviharas into hindi temples in Eastern bengal ( Now Bangladesh)......and many historians believe this fact.....is it true or not??
Our education system needed reform luckily this government has done it....but we still got a long way to go... fortunately people like you are taking such good steps
I am from Jat community in Rajasthan. We have a record history of last 250-300 years. My grand parents said the same thing about Raja Ram Mohan Rai, Aryans and all. According to them this “Sati pratha” was practiced in few areas of West Bengal. Reason behind it was “claiming of property”. So, the other members in family would burnt the widow and framed it from religious angle. We have got a “Sati Mata” temple too in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. And a “sata dada” as well. The sata dada burned himself after his brother died. It was completely voluntary act due to depression. It had nothing to do with “sati pratha” When I went Delhi for further studies then I told the same things to my new friends but they asked me to shut up and study more. Discussed the same topic in Hariyana, they looked somewhat convinced.
@@RajeevKumar-rv8qs One single case and you bark against it also it happened during khangress regime so it's highly doubtful if at all it happened coz the same khangress bark hindutva terror if kasab wasnt arrested alive by tukaram sir then khangress and the left had prepared very well to frame RSS for 26/11 terror attacks to defame hindus also what abt genocide of chitpavan brahmans bu congressi goons post gandhi's death and genocide of sikhs by congressi goons post indira gazi's death
There is no case of sati in Ramayana or Mahabharata, where countless men died. But yet, sati was an integral part of Hinduism. Thank god the English educated and saved us. Thank you foreigners.
@@BrownBengalee the concept of krishna having multiple wives is not from mahabharata but purans According to mahabharata krishna only had one wife that is rukmini She did not commit sati
Exactly! This is so accurate! In my rubbish history curiculum raja ram mohan roy is potrayed as a glorious person who banished Ill doings and was perfect in every sense, that with only him, India is great🤦♂️
Well I am from Rajput (SISODIA) family and Yes , in my family my great grandmother commited sati and many other family member also committed sati. there are many temples dedicated to sati mata.
Yes. Sati did happen in a few parts of India. But to portray it as a Hindu custom, core to Indian society is misleading and wrong. Every society has had some flaws in their history. But to reduce the society to that flaw, and to magnify that flaw too much so as to instill a feeling of inferiority among young minds is blatantly wrong. They taught us about the French Revolution in such detail in our NCERT books. But did they ever teach us about the witch hunting that was very common across Europe? Our books don't mention that. They only cared about it as long as their propaganda was being fuelled. And since you mentioned that you are a Rajput, did they teach us about the brave Rajput rulers and the sacrifices they made? Or the mighty Marathas whose contributions I won't be able to put down in words in a mere youtube comment? You see, this manipulation and partiality with History SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Im from Rajasthan I asked my dad no one has ever heard of anything like that ....like someone has comitted anything like that in past in our village ...and our family is the first family who settled here .... But I never thought about this or asked ....my dad is saying that they have only heard about it ...
@@kaizen_monk Bro No one saying it didn't happened It happened but in some parts moreover why it started it started with jauhar to prevent Female barbaric cruelty .Any one can see it today in Afghanistan so It was on Female choice I just if sati was continuous practice for women then why widow women laws because after death of husband usually Women should die
We don’t even have to look too far back for examples of self immolation. A lot of us would remember the Mandal commision protests. Awesome work!! Love your channel!
The way we are cursed to forget our past our history by lies + lies + more lies. All this done to demotivate us so that we can forget our power our potential like hanumanji And sir you were like that bear in ramayan who reminds hanumanji about his potential by calling "JAGO HANUMAN TUMHE BALWAN"
I hope our books and teachings change soon as fast as it can ✨🥺 well I passed 12th last year so we weren't lucky to study the truth but now by watching all your videos I've got many books you recommended and I'm gonna study all those and you gave me an Aim in life it looks .... I'm a science student but I'm taking history hons. And gonna contribute as much as I can so that our future gen. Students study real history in schools and colleges ✨❤️🇮🇳
I am from Goa my forefathers are and were from Goa we are Sanatani no matter Inquisition or not but we in our family did not come across any such happenings, never heard my parents reciting about such incidents.
I asked this question to my Great Grand mother, She is 97 now. She remembered 2 cases of Sati and She said It was voluntary in nature, even society prevent them not to do, but they somehow did.
I am from Rajasthan..we have our Sati Mata near Nasirabad, Ajmer. Hundreds of years ago, one of our past female family member became Sati. We have a Sati temple there.
I belong to a rajasthani clan of Hada vansh. In our society there is a sati mata but she became sati because of her own choice and not because some peer pressure. She is worshiped in my house during every evening prayer.
Great analysis! Wish history was taught to us like this! I have also thought about the famines happening in British times. Not a single famine happened after independence. So, clearly it was artificially imposed on us by them. During the 1943 bengal famine that killed 3 million people of starvation, Winston Churchill quoted that Indians breed like rabbits and it might be ok to lose a few.
U hindians don't know about Sanatan dharma, we Bengalis spread our culture through the entire world with the help of swami vivekananda, srila Prabhupada (iskon)
As a proud Sanatani I used to be worried about the 'fact' that our ancestors used to practice this sati pratha. You destroyed this widely accepted lie in minutes. My soul will be forever thankful.
Sir even in Assam history(taught in class 8th) , there was never anything like Sati practiced then kings or people . Now, that you asked it makes sense if Sati actually happened or not.
Same in Odisha..we Odia and Assamese share border with Bengal. There is no mention of Sati Pratha in writing of Sankar Deva and Chaitanya.It just hogwash by Missionaries.
Thank you Abhijit for exposing Roy & Sati. Ms Meenakshi Jain wrote a scholarly work on this topic, titled *"Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse"*
In my family, one ancestor of mine performed Sati after the death of her husband. But she herself became Sati on her own will. She was in her parents home when her husband died, she got to know mystically about the death of her husband and she told her parents that she would perform Sati and she eventually came back to our village home and performed sati. And now we worship her as Devi. On every occasion, our Sati Mata is worshipped along with our Kuldevi. But we haven't heard any other sati than her in the whole of my family line.
@Diksha No. 😊 Nobody should your enemy unless someone tries to vanquish your very existence. Be it Hindu or Non-Hindu. Putting labels only breeds disharmony.
I have 1 question in my mind....did only Hinduism had bad practices? What about islam where triple talaq and halala are practised till this day? Why no one talks about them as openly they do against sati ? Doesn't christanity have any bad practices?
you must understand evil deeds are called as adharm so hindu dharm (sanatan dharm) condemnes any evil act ! dharm aur religion ek nhi hota abrahmic religion doesnt have concept ! their even jesus dies for sinners thereby protecting sinners but acc to our dharma paramatma punishes sinners you have to face karma 🙏🏼 also christianity and islam themselves are demonic cults who believe in slaughtering non believers 😓 also christians all around europe used to burn thousands to millions of widows alive (witch hunting) and women in US struggled a lot to get as basic as right to vote 😓
@Pragnesh Kumar kya change hua hinduism me? Abhi tak discrimination ka change toh kuch nahi hua Bhagavan krishna ji ko jo problem nahi hua caste se lekin inlogo me abhi bhi hai Jaise Muslim nahi maan rahe hai jaise hindu bhi hai aaj bhi
In our region, every old person says that there had been this sati pratha here. There are places specifically marked as Sati daha grounds and kali bedis are built.
I hope one day our History books will be rewritten in true spirit..I request Govt to make sure to take inputs from Abhijit Chawda Sir in this process..
No sir u are wrong in this. May be it was not rampant ,or it may happened only in fewer caste lines, but in my area of bengal, I have stories of sati practices personally in my family. The worst part I have heard about sati was, there was wide spread child marriages of very young brides of as young as 10 years old to very old people ,and when these old die, the child was forced to jump on that fire. I came from a family of jamindars ,(now poor 😂 ) and we actually have records of those purohits who performed sati ,because there was some kind of quasi system that, only a certain purohit can perform the ritual on a specific time, so some kind of record was maintained. .
We are not denying the existence of sati. It did exist. It happened at many places. But if you look at NCERT History textbook, they have portrayed it in a way that it was a norm everywhere. This subliminally makes everyone believe that it was a malpractice of Hinduism. Now you tell me, India is such a diverse country. There are so many customs that are so varied. For example, in certain communities from the southern part of India marriages between cousins is prevalent. But can you say that it is the culture of the entire nation? Is it a Hindu custom? It is not. This is the problem. They portrayed Sati as something that Hindus do. This is wrong. And no one can justify it. Few hundred women performed Sati (voluntarily in most cases), doesn't mean that it was a core of Hindu culture.
Few days back I saw a quote :
It takes from 15 - 20 years to demoralise a nation ...
This is the minimum no. of years to educate one generation of students
- Yuri Bezmenov ( Former KGB )
Now Imagine what kind of destruction to the society's mindset the British during colonial period followed by the Congress rule after independence in the span of > 200 years had caused .
But I believe that since the dusk is always followed by dawn and hence we will definately be going to make things work in our own way through our hardwork in the coming future .
It wasn’t 200 years. 150 of them were by the EIC. They didn’t do the complete governance until after 1857 rebellion. Up until that it was the corporation that was ruling India, not the British crown.
@@swapnil7521
Yes. Because he defected. That’s y his information in genuine. He’s got the best insider information.
@@swapnil7521
You don’t need to know their top secrets to know what their basic agenda is. Best doesn’t mean u know EVERYTHING about them. Best as in he knows better than anyone else that’s not part of the organization.
Plus, he didn’t need to b high ranking to understand their patterns and what every KGB agent was expected to do and know.
@@swapnil7521
I know enough.
Don't forget the Islamic & Portugese genocides, both, of Hindus as well as their literature & culture.
It's the greatest wonder of this planet - that we even survive - SANAATAN DHARMA is the savior, nothing else explains it.
My ancestors have lived in the same village for 300 years. I never heard of sati.
@@PaulAllen6304 use aatm daah bolte hai .Sati sati sati kya hutipa laga rakha hai.
Kaun apno ko jala dega bhai😂 .Unke history mein koi sense h nhi hai.
@@redskullx3384 RMR was a crypto christian who sold his soul to devil christian missionaries for money
@@redskullx3384 secluding hindus from their society by forming a separate cult is equivalent to converting hindus thats why we have so many anti hindus pro jihadis with hindu names
@@fikru3759 hindu society cant even hurt an ant let alone burning a person that too alive ! hindu society respect women the most in the whole world unlike abrahmic who consider women as soulless brainless and what not
I am from a Rajput family, no one has committed sati in my family.I used to glorify ram mohan Roy but sir you opened my eyes.
I'm thankful to Gurudev Abhijit chavda ji that this video is reaching to many of the Indians.
He told it was voluantary choice .then why not mandodari ,kunti do it. Why not satyavati did it .Then why king daaratha wives did it .Similarly there are many examples
@nine tailed lol are you not listening or its your hatred towards Heathens stopping you from seeing reality? Some women out of their personal preference did commit Sati while others don't do it. That's why the wives of King Dashrath didn't commit Sati in Ramayana and many widows in Mahabharata didn't commit Sati. And people try to stop them just like the father in-law of Rani Ahilyabai Holkar stopped her from doing Sati lol
@nine tailed maybe one should not give opinion on others deed of past. You are not the person from past. You are just an observer giving opinion about random people whom you don't know.
Regarding men... dude men fought the battles in real. They were not playing playstation battle games then.
@nine tailedThe very first line of your question itself gives the answer man. Pandu's wife Madri commited sati then why didn't his other wife kunti? This shows that it's their personal choice.. no one forced Madri to perform sati. Feeling lost without her better half, she felt like doing so! If you are predetermined to not be open to the truth, you'll spend the rest of your life as ignorant. Before criticising analyse! Don't believe in words of others you yourself search for the answers from scriptures.
@Howard Roark jauhar was done to safeguard the respect from the Turks and sati was done to follow your husband in alterlife. Our community is gloriously known for jauhar . Jai rajputana.
Don't give your fucking knowledge to whom whose ancestors have done it for their honour.
The act of forcefully burning women used to happen in Europe instead in the name of 'Witch hunting'
exactly
Portuguese did it to Hindus in Goa as well. Don't need to look to Europe for examples.
@@ladagspa2008 by mentioning Europe I meant to say that forceful burning of women was done by them and Portuguese were also one of those and they did the same here when they colonized Goa
In witch hunting, men were burnt too.
@@mr.noname6109 Is it about the European Witch Hunt, then Nope. It was plain old superstition and for speaking against the church
Now i realize, how much I've to unlearn.
Me too
Misleaded by ncert 😡😡
@@rehanphalswal yes
@@rehanphalswal and because of Maoist historian such as Romila Thapar.
@@mayankpandey8953 now is the opportunity. Write to MHRD. Last date is 15th of July🙏🙏
Forget my family, no one in my village has ever commited sati.
Old Grannies of around 95 years have never told us such stories. They always told how strong they were during Independence times !!!!
This became the main reason why I was always confused that if we were so backward then how we had such women warriors !!!
@@pranavtiwari_yt Bhai ,mera ye last time jee hai issliye abhi off tha kaaffi hafto se.
But am surprised to see u here 😂
sati was banned almost 170 years ago no wonder why they don't remember it
@@notnotironif there was sati then why didn't they burned Rani Laxmi Bai with her husband
@@parimalmourya1876 For two reasons:
1)Rani Laxmibai was not in a sati struck region
2) Sati was already disappearing during her time as it was made illegal due to the efforts made by social reformers.
Sati was enforced only in Sati struck regions mostly in the northern plains. Of course not everyone was burned but doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There are many accounts to prove so and it is a historically known fact in places where it did exist, eg Bengal. And it was already banned by the government in 1829 after the persuasion of Ram Mohan.
@@notnotiron maharani ahilyabai holkar? Maharani jijau. And why the place where British ruled (Bengal) was a sati stuck state? And the cases of places other than Bengal are not more than 300.
I'm from odisha i never known anyone from my family branch ever committed sati or jwahar. My father can tell his grand father's grandfather's father name and also and our family history. And he never told me anything like sati. Even my father's grandma is widow and she brought up her children alone.
Me too from Odisha🧡
Exactly ,I never thought like that
Me too from Odisha 🙏🏻
Jay Jagannath
My great grandfather's mother was a widow and she too brought up her children alone, there was nothing like sati.
True, may b very few incidents here n there as he mentioned
I am from Bengal myself and I asked the same question to my great grand mother 7-8 years back (She is no more unfortunately) that if she witnessed or heard of such practice from her own parents or grandparents. The answer is the same, "They (Her elders) heard this but never seen this happening to any close relative of theirs."
Edit: I wanna add one more thing here. If you ever go through any Mangal Kavya like Manasa Mangal, Chandi Mangal, Dharma Mangal which are gems of Bengali literature from Medieval Age you won't find any mention of this forced immolation (Which is called 'Sati daho Protha' in Bengali).
@@BrownBengalee Kothaye? Where it is.
Hey dude no offence just think there was sati and they used to burned women with her husband. Then for whom they made all this fucking bidhoba laws, that women will wear sari , not any red bindi means lal tip in bengal.
My question is if there were no widows then for whom the widow laws are made boss..
Ektu bhebe jobab deben please ami apnake choto korte chaichi na..
@@PaulAllen6304 Brahmo Samajists have no faith in any scripture as an authority, what are you even talking about
@@BrownBengalee I have no idea about what happened anywhere else. But this is the history of my family. I have learnt it from my elders that they haven't seen this brutal practice to happen with any of their relatives. There is no record of any widow immolating herself shortly after her husband's demise at least in my family.
@@PaulAllen6304 just tell me one simple thing if sati pratha was happening back then , means wife were burned alive after death of her husband, That means no Widows were left back then , than tell me for whom they made all this Widow laws like women's will wear only white saree , no red bindi, no non veg foods. Etc
Can u explain..?
@@PaulAllen6304 Yes he formed brahmo samaj I know. The thing is..ppl overexaggerated the things about him. Abhijit sir is also saying on that basis.
I saw an article somewhere which claimed RRMR used to run around different samsans to see if any woman is burned or not...LOL.
I saw another anti-hindu article which claimed RRMR said Sanskrit is a bad language..meant to imprison the masses.
History is not reading what is obvious,its interpreting what is between the lines...
I can listen to Abhijit Sir for eternity, one never gets bored of wisdom,you see!
British: We will build a fake narrative about indian culture.
Indian authors : Yeh hum kar lete hai, tab tak aap Dream 11 pe team banao. 😎
So true dude...we literally destroyed ourselves with our own hands
@@RavanHood sad
Bro the meme is outdated come up with new one 😂
@Diksha
Maan Singh APNI Nowkari Kar Raha tha , Jaise Shiva Ki Maharaj ke Pita Nowkari Karte the Aadil Shahi Darbar Me.
Mainly the Marxist and western school of thought
I have literally become aware of history, polity, geography, social issues more than ever. Whatever I studied there is worthless than what I am learning on this channel, providing such precious knowledge for free, breaking myths, inculcating our culture once again! 🙏
I would also suggest you to watch. Praveenmohan channel for ancient Marvels and World affairs by Prashant dhawan for geopolitics.
@@Wiggie_Wiggie I regularly watch Prashant dhawan For geopolitics. But will check out Praveen mohan. Thankyou!
Good to hear
@Vi brainwashed hai wo
@@revatipande7744 give your suggestions to MHRD as well. Last date is 15th of July🙏🙏
I almost have tears in my eyes. For so long I believed the textbooks, and looked at my own culture in a grey light. Thankyou very much Abijeet. You are not only the eye opener, but a light to the misguided.
I went to Bara Bagh in Jaisalmer. They have Chhatris for the Rajputs. There you can see Satis. But I have nowhere else found this custom in place. Sati is indeed a British Missionary agenda.
@@HPV97531 Sati was never forced by society hindu society respects everyone no wonder muslims and christians attack us 🙄😠
YAA I AM IN CLASS 10TH THERE IS FALSE GLORIFICATION OF HIM
no he's not, this is just revisionst history, throughout indian history Muslim leaders also tried to outlaw this barbaric practice, it didn't suddenly show up with the British.
@@zahidkhan5733 get the f out of here zahil khan ur ancestors raped women and tht is why women had to burn themselves in order to save themselves from the likes of u
3:08 exact same concept my mom narrated to me when I asked her about sati.
Trust him guys he is a genuine person who has a thorough knowledge 🙌
But my Nani, saw a woman being sati. I don't know how usual or unusual the practice was.
@@powerhousebikki still not in family
@@anantambisht4895 yeah right
@Ahamasmi Sanatani I see. But law was passed in the beginning of 19th century. Your grandmother must have been born & married after 19th century and by then many who practiced it earlier would have left it.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani I see.
Thanks for the information, Ahamasmi.
The same kind of tactics were used in America (USA, as most aren't aware that anyone who is from North, South, or Central America is technically an American. Lol)
Washington was a British general, and part of the Gentry class. He was also one of the wealthiest people in America upon marrying his wife, who's father was the owner of the largest amount of land in America at the time. The Torries or British Loyalists in America were very problematic for the US forming, and seceding from the British empire.)
It is most important for anyone to be a Nationalist in their own country!!
Let me rephrase that, it's most important for anyone, be they an American, Indian, or anyone else, to be proud of their UNIQUE National identity. That means knowing your own country's accurate history, and
*BEING AN ASSET to your country. Not s person who is ashamed of who they are, or allows and tolerates others speaking ill of your country and it's people!*
You have a voluminous knowledge of things, I pray that India succeeds and becomes prosperous!
*Much respect and love from*
😎🇺🇸
Lots of love to America from India 🙏🥰
@@6tbrowny430 thank you!
Lots of love back to you
@@studytonic3619 appreciate your kind words. Thanks 😁
@@d.cypher2920 you are right dude, it is a simple strategy of british to divided and rule. They separate people of the country (which they rule) from their own culture and try to make them shame of their identity. Same they did in india, they tried to vanish history of great indian emperors who ruled the world and wanted indians to think that indians have no glorious past and they were ruled by other. However, the truth is that foreign invaders managed to capture india in just 11 th century and even foreign invaders not captured full india, they just managed to capture northern india at a time when india was politically unstable. Before that for thousands of years indian emperors ruled indian and had a monopoly in regions of thousands of kilometers across regions of india. For example, there was a great indian emperor vikramaditya, he ruled almost 60 percent of asia for 100 years around 100BC. Empire of vikramaditya included modern day middle east, Turkey, UAE, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, iran, Iraq, pakistan, full india, and almost half of china and Hinduism was major religion in all this region.
Blue coloured area was his empire- images.app.goo.gl/KnxZNkqbrUHZTpLm8
There were many kings like him in past who ruled like boss till they lived but their history was tried to be vanished by british and islamic rulers and nowdays a few people know about them.
Hopefully one day entire world will know about these great emperors especially vikramaditya.
Theses british even tried to vanish owr language sanskrit and hindi, but fortunately they were not successful. But unfortunately they were successful in many other countries, even native Americans dont used to speak english. English was introduced when british captured USA.
I just asked my grandfather and grandmother who are 82 and 79....they have no recollection of any of their ancestors practicing Sati....OMG!! You are right with the facts
You should read the book written by Dr. Meenakshi Jain on sati.
Dr. Meenakshi jain is a historian and a padma shri awardee.
The name of her book is - "Sati : Evangelicals Baptist Missionaries and the Changing Colonial Discourse"
Sati was never a norm.
I am from Rajasthan, and in our family we never had anyone doing sati ..all women died naturally...we worship a goddess call Mata Sati, and that's it
Mata Sati is Shakti, Shiva's wife - and she is worshipped, as the divine feminine, all over Bharat varsh in different avatars 🙏
Sati is never pushed on people its British who bought an useless and showed him in the lime light
Mata Sati is devi Parvati. Jai Mata di Bhai.
Puranas tell us about Mata Sati and his story.
Have you heard about Johar?
Self sacrifice in brahmins is sati, after Mughals it's started in our Bharat
My great grandmother lost her husband and was remarried - she had one child (my grandfather) who was adopted and brought up by her mother... This clearly shows we were progressive and only a few communities didn't allow widow remarriage but there was no 'Sati' even there...
@@Aikadiwana I'm not talking about 300 B.C.E
@@shobhamourya8396 what was he (tech samraat) talking about?
@@irondisulfide7480 Something like 'Maurya Empire laughing emojis Joking' ... And looks like after my reply he deleted the comment
@@shobhamourya8396 oh i see, that's why i asked you; i guess, it wasn't anyway related to the topic.
@@shobhamourya8396 go Banaras and mathura and see the conditions of windows...he is teaching wrond history and u r listening....Kya hi hoga is desh ka....apni kamiya to sunna hi ni chahte...Kal wo kh dega ki caste system h hi ni and San man lege
Going to school and knowing that I'm forcefully being taught false information makes me angry now
I have recently passed 10 and the saddest part about cbse is that we were constantly hammered that how backward our indianculture was and how there was discrimination amongst hindus , and on the other hand foreign invaders like Tipu Sultan and Akbar are glorified who actually were a nightmare for the country and hindus. This all was done through the medium of ncert textbooks , which are not even updated since many years and there are many errors in them but we have to write wrong answers to get good marks
This is great Indian circus we are not a country but a circus.
Write to MHRD. Last date is 15th of July to change the content of NCERT books. 🙏🙏
I passed CBSE 10 18 years ago and even now if NCERT history books haven't been updated then its a pity.
@@koteswar009 ya they are not
just learn the NCERT history for the sake of exams. But focus on maths and science.
All I remember from my highschool History classes, taught from NCERT textbooks are about Mughals, Ram Mohan Roy and some irrelevant-for-India French Revolution. I feel totally ashamed I didn't hear /remember a single thing about Marathas or Rajaputs or the Mauryan empire
Also check jessore empire, eastern ganga dynasty(narsinghadeva I),Gajapati empire, gujara prathihars ,Rajputana under Rana sanga,rashtrakuta empire,vijayanagra empire,kamrupa dynasty(Raja prithu of assam) .
Congress dictates and brainless printers print fake information :(
Nothing about Great Cholas who extended whole of south east Asia, and also Pandyas, and Vijayanagara with Hampi richest medieval cities that Europeans who visited wrote. Maybe just a few lines in book
About marathas....go through series of sabitribai phule of doordarshan...u will understand...the extent of blind faith,brahminism,casteism and women harrashment prevalent at that time ...
@@devanshsingh1468 also Lalitaditya Muktapida Kashmir King . Cholas , pandyas , Pallavi, Mourad dynasty, Ahoms, vikramaditya etc.
You are the flag bearer of the 'eye opening clan' in present day India, Sir. Please keep educating us, so that we can try and educate others, further .
Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse by Meenakshi Jain is a scholarly book on this topic and it will clear many misconceptions about Sati
women like meenakshi maam are real feminists and intellectuals❤
Your channel is answering many questions i have been asking to my teachers( none of them were able to reply obviously).After visiting your channel i realized that , those so called bad customs of Bharat were actually a well scripted conspiracies against us .May Maa Saraswati keep showering her blessings on you ,Sir. Best wishes.....
First time I learnt about Sati I asked "isn't that what goddess Sati did?" And my teacher replied that the malpractice was practiced and Mata Sati's name was misused as justification, but it didn't spread to the South (I'm a South Indian).
I have always been sceptic about the social textbooks from childhood, because I noticed how they introduced us to democracy with a utopian image but they only showed the negative aspects of Monarchy and dictatorship, and as a kid who adored kings, I found this to be irritating.
And yet, even after all the scepticism, I still ended up believing in sati and the greatness of Raja Ram Mohan Roy. Shows how efficient the British system is at brainwashing us since childhood
christians who used to burn thousands to millions of widow women in witch hunting became sadhu in india and abolished so called social evil 😂
it's just like saying rapists are protecting women or terrorists are advocating for global peace or that stepmother is very kind 😂😅
We Odia and Assamese share border with Bengal..Kings of Odisha and Assam have maintained medieval historical records..There were no Sati Pratha in Odisha and Assam..If Sati Pratha was rampant in Bengal.why didn't Odia and Assamese historian mentioned it?It just hogwash by Missionaries.
Bro sathi paddati was not conditional to south
While royal kingdoms followed sathi culture here too there are history records for that
@@sachinnayaka32 how many cases of Sati Pratha were there in royal families of south India? It was very little in number but missionaries made it like all are forced to commit Sati Pratha..
To this day typical western person says two things when "hindu" is mentioned - sati and caste system. I think this is what they are learning for 250 years about us
Witch burning was an ancient practice in Britain.
If a man died, they used to blame his wife for the death, considered her a witch and burned her alive.
oh i never knew this
@@kookiechannel3060 it was all over the Europe but the above comment is also not true there are few cases of husband and wife but not every case
ye saale angrez barbad krrr diya poora desh aur world dono.
this is absolute nonsense. Ancient Celts had great respect for women. Queen Boudicca was widowed but wasnt burnt and was admired by her subjects for fighting the Romans.
@@enrico6942dude just search witch burning.
Thanks Chavda ji.
I am a Bengali still living in kolkata and I am fond of Bengali literature and I have read every Bengali author you can name... Not a single Author writes about the instance of Sati, yet the British claimed that Sati was majorly practiced in Bengal......
You can also read Mangal Kavyas which are Bengali literature of Medieval age like Manasa Mangal, Chandi Mangal, Dharma Mangal to name a few. I swear you won't find a single mention of this forced immolation (Sati Daha Pratha known in Bengali).
But nowadays there are some BengaliTV series based on the incidents in 18th century or so showing this Sati Daha Pratha in a way that it was a norm back then.
@@papaipanda7694 .... Panda da, thanks for your suggestion, I would go through those as soon as possible....
@@biddobrahmin8643 Vai, Manasa Mangal is a big example to expose all these propaganda. Chand Sadagar lost 6 of his sons one by one to snake bite. And all 6 of his daughter-in-laws became widowed. Interesting thing is they weren't forced to immolate by their in laws.
Had this Sati Daha been so commonly practiced it must have some mention in concurrent literature. Isn't it? And besides these pieces were written between 13th and 18th century which coincides with the period when Suttee was widely practiced as claimed by our history textbooks. A literature reflect some a lot of things about the contemporary society and it's practices. But there's no reference of this malpractice in these literatures.
@@papaipanda7694 ... Dhonnobad dada amake ei grontho r bepare jananor jonno.. Ami obosshoi dekhbo...
Oh did you ? I have read many bengali novels writing about sati. Did you not read Sei Somoy...in which parallel universe are you living?
I am a bengali and until now I believed that sati was one of the nastiest truths of our society. I cannot believe we youths are really this ignorant despite of all our education. You Sir, are a gem and a powerhouse of India's age old history. Thank you for putting so much effort and trying this hard to educate the country people with such eye opening breath taking incidents from our history.
You are a Bengali then remember that our ancestors had did great things to make us literate and tried not to get into the trap of such half truth propaganda . Please read rammohan read Bengal's history . And please open your eyes . Don't let these morons to mislead you
Believe in Sanatana Dharma
There is not a single thing wrong or nasty in it
He is a fake person😂
@@mrinmoyM1998look at you just passing comments without any logic and proofs🤡
I remember asking this question as a kid to my grandmother which was more than 25 years ago. My grandmother who died about 10 years ago at age 99 never saw or heard any of that in her lifetime.
@@rahultiwari-dx8qo If at all these practices existed it was on the East part. We never heard of it in North. There are no evidence of this practice in most other parts either.
@@rahultiwari-dx8qo jaadu ki chaddi thi koi britishers ke paas ki practise lagbagh khatam ho gayi 20th century ke aate aate ...dimaag lagaya karo thoda
Sati was banned in 1800s.
Surely none of family member was present or recorded
I am from Khanakul,Arambagh westbengal. The birth place of Raja Ram Mohon Roy. Also I have never hard about Sati with my ancestors.
I had also doubts about this because of nobody can tell about Sati with their ancestors in my area.
Now my doubts cleared.
Thank you sir. 🙏
I also from khanakul but not Arambagh. My ancestors ruled Khanakul as the Jaigirdar of 34 villages. I have heard stories how the law stopped the social evil. Just think a little girl given in marriage at the age of 11 with a widower man of 50 years in those times. Man dies. Relatives will try to force widow to perform sati.
@@soumyaroy5122 You must have heard from your marxist distorian relatives they say rammohan's bhabhi was victim but rammohan didnt have brother so how did his bhabhi come?
even today young girls marry old rich men for money that's greed of ppl not a majburi like how its portrayed
@@soumyaroy5122 making a child marry a old man of age of 50yr is never acceptable only the man with heavy pocket can get such liberty or the child parents be extremely poor to in a way sell there child to rich man by giving name of a marriage but it doesn't make it Sati pratha kind of thing common people can't think of doing such think yes being widow itself was taboo earlier but committing sati was never mandatory .
@@soumyaroy5122 yes performing sati was prevalent in north area like Rajasthan, mp etc but it was only to protect the sanity ,pride of women who if being captured by Islamic invaders were sold,raped and traded as sex slaves in Afghanistan, Iran,turkey like places by Islamic zombies
See Lal patthar film. Many Christians saved lives of young widows. Hans Anthony was such a person. He built firingi kalibari.
The Bengal Renaissance leaders and reformers like Dayanand Saraswati all of them batted for western education. All these leaders were well versed with Sanskrit as well as Arabic and Persian languages yet they realised that western education was equally important for that point of time. Moreover Raja Ram Mohan Roy had himself experienced the agony of a sati because his sister-in-law wife of his brother Jagmohan Roy was forced to commit sati.
Secondly sati pratha was for the upper caste or the royals.
As for Ahilya Devi was concerned Malhar Rao her father-in-law stopped her because he wanted her to be his successor. The other wives of Khande Rao had no other option. Even Ahilya Bai's daughter committed sati.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was always revered as a reformer never a saint.
Sir please do not trivialise the contributions of a reformer like Raja Rom Mohan Roy or other reformers of the 19th century.
Awating your clarification.
So generalising a obscure practice is any good?
He was a collaborator and traitor. And this supposed incident of Raja Ram Mohan Roy's sister-in-law being forced to commit Sati, is also fake and myth which has been debunked by none other than the great Bengali historian RC Majumdar.
Sati was a voluntary death and nothing else. Comparable to sepuku in Japanese society.
Thank you for replying it logically, and I just want to ask very politely that the law of satti was bild 200 year ago in 1828, did anyone knows their's 150 old family history ?
Don't support blindly a british stooge..... because he is the first culprit who is responsible mainly to import nasty western feminist culture through fake sati pratha case and that's why we all boys suffering today by false dowy case, rape case and even extramarital affairs of cheater wives......at that time, he promoted and brainwashed whole indian society by talking about false liberation and independencecy of women so that- in far future, such traditional sanatani women easily converted to modern corrupt feminist and repeatedly pressurize govt and society to make gender-baised gynocentric laws to blackmail innocent boys,father and husband by false fake case(legal terrorism)and extort them mentally,physically,economically what we boy are actually seeing today........before rammohan(british stooge) Era, there was very very rare case of divorce and marital life between husband-wife was divinely good and haven, they trust and fully committed to each other.......but now after rammohan(british stooge) Era,,divorce rate is very high like western culture and cuel feminist wives are earning a huge money by alimony just like corporate institutions............all these are cultivated fruits of west nasty feminism culture which actually started by 250 years ago by this british stooge( rammohan roy) and thus he sowed the seed of destruction of our sanatan traditional culture.......
Achārya Medhātithi (manubhāṣyakāra) says that the act of suicide by a woman after her husband has died is strictly prohibited. If she has a strong desire to do it, she can do it but let her not think what she is doing is scripturally sanctioned.
@@ankansenapati3600 Not stopping you from suicide is not "promotion of suicide"
@@ankansenapati3600 it's funny how you're either missing the point or either trying to misinterpret the statement. Unsuccessful try.
When I subscribed this channel two weeks back, there was only 95k subscribers only but in few days it crossed 100k and now reached 110k. We need more educators like u Abhijit sir inorder to know how great our nation was. I hope this channel will cross 1M mark as soon as possible.
Sati was very common thing in my area. After reading in my textbook I have asked to many older people of my village and they all said yes sati was prevalent in this area.
Where are you from?
I am from Darbhanga Bihar
@@mr.struggle-man9541 come on bro, come to my area
It was a choice in some parts of India. It was not forced and was not in large numbers as Britishers portrayed. This kinda parctice was there in many parts of the world in very very small number
Yeah I guess even if it was done it was not an old tradition of India but emerged after the Mughal invasion. And in some parts of India the patriarchal uneducated society took it to another level. But definitely it wasn't at a mass level. Otherwise the sex ratio of the population would be drastically different.
What's ironic is that Europeans were the ones who practiced this thing in the form of witch hunting wherein the widow would be burned alive when her husband died. There are a lot of records of this happening throughout Europe.
Yes
Medieval Europe’s history is horrible.
@@white-demonn Totally agreed that lots of bad things happened. On the 'witch' thing, it was the church persecuting the old tradition of 'wise woman', aka older ladies without any protector and who also tended to have knowledge that was not 'approved' of by the church. So nothing to do with being a widow as such, just old or non-conformist. Not limited to 'old' though at times, just 'not approved of' by the church or a lynch mob claiming legitimacy.
@@philipdawes2661 When the father of the church had bad intention about any girl or woman, he would declare her a witch. In the naming of curing her, the father would sexually exploit her for certain time and when he was done with this, he would declare her as witch and ordered to burn her alive. The other case used to be when a common women or even a Nun resisted the dictum of the church, the padre had a formidable weapon against her...declaring her a witch or a threat like, the women went silent thereafter. The atrocities of the Church on innocents knows no bounds.
@@satishmaurya3404 Agreed, when men get power over women, some tend to do appalling things in the name of whatever they wish to to 'legitimise' what they do. Makes you ashamed to be a man at times. What happens these days is, mostly, different to what went on historically, but the impact on the woman remains the same :(
Dear Mr. Chavda, in my family, my grandmother's aunt(mother's side) committed sati, with consent of then dy. Vice Roy around 1895. Surprisingly I am from the family of a member of bengal renaissance, ram gopal ghosh. Lived in the same building of his till 2004, just 500 mts from ram mohan's house. We know the truth and many things, but when I tried to speak up these things in past, people around( commies) derogated me. Thankfully the society is opening eyes.
@@rahultiwari-dx8qo yes, u r right, but think of the women mentality with superstitions of 19th century. Also, law is always a prestigious or playable commodity of the privilaged. Though today, I am poor by any standards but the family was & still is of lawyers, judges, officers & business owners. The family had a shipping business of teak from rangoon port to England & crockery fm England among other professions.
I Think when he mentioned about witch hunting u should have guessed who really brought this weird ritual.
Idk if u want to hear one sad truth about Europe that, when a man died his wife was blaimed and was regarded as a witch. Google it for sure.
When, witch hunting Was mentioned it was clear for a normal mind to guess, that Some of this must have been practiced by some. But some people's minds are so much in love with brits( as doing business for them made them wealthy) that they don't want to look at that.
@@mr.soumyasen8259 and answer me , why this sati is only talked during British rule?
@@jujutsukaisen2279 just to prove & put this narrative in our mind that Christians are civilized & we were not. Interestingly, if you read Roman history of 1st and 2nd century; there is no reference of any jesus. First reference of him comes only during late 3rd & 4th century. The word history means 'his story' 😊
@@mr.soumyasen8259 I know that already, Romans Took Greek culture and moulded it, Their Zeus became their, Jupiter, what was the point of bringing Riman empire?
Exactly 💯
My forefathers also never mentioned any sati incidents in our family
Women in our family were highly educated at 1950s when their were very less colleges
And everyone was in job or housemaker by their choice
Octavio Paz on Raja Ram Mohan Roy:
“The political movement was preceded by a reform of Hinduism in which the influence of English Christianity was decisive. The leader of this reformation, Ram Mohan Roy, attempted to restore Hinduism to its original purity.
Influenced by the ideas of the Unitarian church,he found proof in the sacred texts of Brahmanism thst the true Hindu religion,now reformed by superstition, was no less rigorous than that of the Christians...I am certain that he never realised he was the creator of a pious fraud.
To defend Hinduism against the criticism of missionaries, the reformers Christianized it. Their secret religion was Christianity; without knowing or wanting to, they adopted its values”.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was himself a Christian and helped establish many Christian missionaries in North Eastern India, just check over the Internet.
@Diksha of course....he did the right thing.......idol worshipping was not accepted in hinduism in the vedic period.....
@@ritamchakraborty1146 Did you actually read the main comment? If you did, you wouldn't be blabbering like that.
Vedas neither promote nor condemn "idol worship". Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a fraud. He tried to Christianize Hinduism
@@ritamchakraborty1146 in veds idol worshipped is neither prohibited nor compulsory.
I think you are reading veds from wrong place.if you are reading them
@@aakashmandal1008 True. One had freedom of worship, common people worshipped idols as form of God whereas sages in forests or Himalayas sat in meditation on the formless all pervading Brahman, who is nameless, formless, attributeless yet has all names, forms, attributes, the beginning and the end
My maternal grandfather was from chandradweep , east Bengal he was an M.A in history .... He said in the Eastern part nobody ever heard of a sati in his village !!...
@@kaizen_monk sab ke sab chutiya hai
Yes. I too found Chavda sir on Ranveer's channel. I am glad that someone is making us aware of the real history of our country. I have become huge fan of Chavda sir. Our history text books need to be rewritten.
#AskAbhijit
1.) Are BCE, CE , AD, BC correct to use.
2.) Is ancient Indian calendar or method for finding dates more precise.
3.) In reality which year is going on.
I have same exsct set of questions
Plava samvatsara-Dakshinayana
Rashtriya Shaka-1943
Greeshma Rithu Jyeshta Masa
Source:Copied from calender for your information
AAdya bhrahmana, dwitiya parardhe, shri Shwetavaraaha kalpe, Vaivaswata manvantare, kali yuge, prathama charane, Bharata Varshe, Bharata khande, Jambu dweepe, Dandakaranye deshe, godavarya, dakshine teere, shaalivaahana shake, बौद्ध avatare, राम kshetre, asmin vartamaane, chandramaanena, plava naama samvatsarasya, uttarayane, greeshma rutau, aashadha maase, shukla पक्ष, shashthi thithau, bruhaspati vaasare,
That's the magnanimity of indian calender system.... with differences, in Vikram samvat and Shaka samvat... else all is precise,
It accounts for space and time as one.
The above sankalp is done everyday thrice before sandhya Vandana is performed
This actually signifies the wisdom of our fore fathers ... who said the place and time ... space and time in above mantra is referred as one.
😭 My heart aches listing all of this. They destroyed our glorious history.
Sir, My ancestors were war generals and revenue officers in the Bikaner kingdom. Around 3 or 4 committee sati but that was by choice because their history is written in different text. That time written text mentioned that "No one forces them to committee but they were forcing them to not commit sati".
Sati was not like burning them forcibly, our great Pati-Vrata Nari choose this because they don't want that anybody else touches them after their husband.
For this, there is a very famous line written by the rajasthani poet " केहरी केश, भुजंग मान, सरनाई सोहड़ा, सती पायोधर, कृपाण धन, पडी हाथ मुवाह".
Means hairs of a lion, Jem of snakes(Sarp-maņi), a person who takes asylum from a warrior, The zenith of a virtuous woman, and the Money of a miser only gets in your hand after they died.
So in short please read about the depth and then make your decision.
Exactly my mother saying this from the beginning first when I was in class 10 I argue with her (although my mother had done double MA in History) . Now I agree with her
@@rahultiwari-dx8qo magic wand tha ki ban hua aur khatam ho gayi ..untouchability ban hai par hoti hai naa fir bhi ..
All non bengalis would be amazed to hear that even Sarat Chandra Chattopadhay didn't even mentioned the word or deed of sati in his fictions and non fiction.... Sarat chandra ji was a fiery writer before Rabindranath who wrote against the social injustices that prevailed in early british bengal..... Sarat ji especially wrote against the injustices hurled at women, he wrote many novels on child marriage but never even mentioned sati....
Take for example, Bankimchandra Chattopadhay, he too never mentioned about Sati......
These writers represented the society of Bengal as a whole and if Sati was a prevalent practice, then it would be hard to not find it's mention in their writings....
Totally agree with you. I have read all the novels and short stories by Sarat Chandra. He never mentioned Sati in any of his writings. I don't think he mentioned it even in his essays. It is believed he wrote what he saw happening in society back then. Many of his novels are set in rural Bengal. So I am sure Sati pratha as interpreted by Raja Ram Mohan Roy did not exist. I think the Colonizers twisted the meaning of the word "sati" for their own barbarian divide and rule policies.
@@mauraforever .. Yes, you are correct... Even in his novels, which elaborate the apathy of women in bengali history, doesn't mention even the name of - Sati...
@biddo Brahmin, I was sceptical about the logic. Until, I read your comment. It's quite true. Sarat babu had mentioned about the apathy of widow's and everything else about women in society but never mentioned about Satidaho protha. For that matter, Bankim babu also never mentioned about the same. However, I can't claim I've read all from him.
Sotty kotha bhai kothao nei. I have read all his novels . Obhaginir sorgo, bagdotta, devdas kothao nei ekta line o nei.
Eto din dhore gaandu banalo amaderke.. 😭
@@indianancientsage ..... Sudhu eto din na... Ekhono era amader boka baniye jacche...... Amaderke Banglai ekta channel banate hobe, itihas er sotti ta jonosadharon ke jananor jonno...
In my family 400 year ago, she was my great great grandmother who commits sati. And at this time our whole village worship them as SATI MATA
Can you give more detail please?
Jai Sati Mata
Stupid AF
I learnt in convent school and my history teacher used to mention that Rajputs didn't like girl child and were more favourable towards male child. She even told that small female infants were killed in hot boiled milk.
It was not even mentioned anywhere in NCERT books but she used to still say that without quoting any source.
There were around 40 kids in our class and she was history teacher in multiple class... year after year.... different class...new set of childrens.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani yes , missionaries are everywhere.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani My convent school wasn't that bad. There was a subject of moral education(once in a week). But then they used to classify it as Christian vs non Christian. We had to gather in different class and only catholic students were taught about christanity.
However, many times, various priests used to come to preach. That time all students irrespective of any faith were made to gather and listen their preachings which used to last for more than an hour.
They used to tell that Jesus would save you and I used to wonder that Jesus couldn't save his own ass from getting crucified. Lord Shiva on other hand drank poison, saved everyone and still stood strong.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani i also studied in a missionary school . a convent school they do conversion in villages . they used to show us jesus cartoon movies.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani the reason why govt can't take any actions, search in details about Project Joshua & Thessalonica and its reach then you will understand about all this.
Same here, I also studied at a Convent till class 8. I've seen many poor tribal kids getting converted.
Your Channel and your analysis are really mind boggling. I have a become a dead fan of yours. A person like you is indeed needed to save our culture, religion, our nation and dig out our aged old advanced system of life which have been erased from history. We are proud of being Hindusthani.
We are Dogra Rajputs from J&K, I have never heard of such practices in my family lineage both on my mother and father's side. Even though we were untouched by the influence of these so called reformers.
Thank you, Abhijit ji. Never stop making your educational videos. Your clarity is DIRELY needed for generations of Indian students brainwashed by bullshit textbooks in schools/colleges.
The day Liberandu Dhruv Rathee glorified Raja Ram Mohan Roy, I got the doubt that 100% there is something wrong youths are being taught, thanks for solving out doubt sir 🙏🏻
The so called left liberals have taught us wrong history...... Brainwashed republic
I never trusted sati pratha coz i knew hindu society is a kind one
also Rammohan Roy looked like a crook just like kejriwaal🙄
Rathee has a very punchable face. Only idiots must believe that crook who insults traditional customs of India and roams around with his white gf. An actual clown.
@Raj kumar bhatt bro these all are just proud too much about our religion and not seeing it's flaws and accepting them
Sati paddati was present even in some places of south india
Even though north and south have different cultures
Royal families did follow this culture and it was cruel one
Those who went against it people like these fools calls them anti hindu or something
Do we need such culture who kills lives of innocent one?
@@saloni2244 kind one? Oh yeah
That's why they killed brutal Dalits right? Who just mind their own business still kind Brahmins tried to discriminate them
My grandfather can name 7 males before him
No mention of sati
Our origins are fron RANA vansh
❤️ From Gujarat
Sati was not so widespread as it was told by British. It was itself popularized in Bengal during the British time only. Earlier Bengal has no such practices called Sati, not even in whole India except among some communities in Rajasthan. Rammohan Roy's brother's wife was the victim of this practice. Then he protested against it. British popularized it and themselves stopped it. WOW!!!
Not "popularized", just inflated the number of Sati victims.
@@Ghijk456 Yeah, you r right. I actually wanted to say that Bengal had no concept of Sati during earlier times, during Palas up to Senas as far as known. In 1818, it reached above 800.
May be sati was there but not widespread as britishers claim but small in number
@@punyashloka4946 Yeah, Sati was practiced only among some small communities. When Hiuen Tsang wrote about India he didn't mentioned Sati. Women performed sati on their will not by force during that time
@@itsme6461 sati pratha what I have read that it was started in Sena period not during Pala dynasty......so that means it was started by orthodox hindus???...right??...because the Senas were hindu and they invaded bengal and converted several mahaviharas into hindi temples in Eastern bengal ( Now Bangladesh)......and many historians believe this fact.....is it true or not??
Our education system needed reform luckily this government has done it....but we still got a long way to go... fortunately people like you are taking such good steps
Do you remember, in your living life, have you ever seen a lion?
No?
Lions don’t exist
I have
Have you seen your brain though?
Bengal famine in 1940 s was d best example of British cruelty
Great Bengal famine 1943
The odisha famine of 1866 (na-anka durbhikhsya) almost wiped out one third of its population.
@@debashishkhuntia5382 There were many Famines in Bengal (Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam included) caused by British during their rule.
@Ahamasmi Sanatani Not just Indian soldiers it seems, but thank you, I was not aware of this ugly thing.
1774,1890s many more
I am from Jat community in Rajasthan. We have a record history of last 250-300 years. My grand parents said the same thing about Raja Ram Mohan Rai, Aryans and all.
According to them this “Sati pratha” was practiced in few areas of West Bengal. Reason behind it was “claiming of property”. So, the other members in family would burnt the widow and framed it from religious angle.
We have got a “Sati Mata” temple too in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. And a “sata dada” as well. The sata dada burned himself after his brother died. It was completely voluntary act due to depression. It had nothing to do with “sati pratha”
When I went Delhi for further studies then I told the same things to my new friends but they asked me to shut up and study more. Discussed the same topic in Hariyana, they looked somewhat convinced.
Thank you for sharing this☺
Pls boycott dhruv rathee
delhites are fools bro no wonder kejruddin got into power
What about rup kuwer case of sati in 1987...can u shed some light
@@RajeevKumar-rv8qs One single case and you bark against it also it happened during khangress regime so it's highly doubtful if at all it happened coz the same khangress bark hindutva terror if kasab wasnt arrested alive by tukaram sir then khangress and the left had prepared very well to frame RSS for 26/11 terror attacks to defame hindus
also what abt genocide of chitpavan brahmans bu congressi goons post gandhi's death and genocide of sikhs by congressi goons post indira gazi's death
I am from West Bengal, and I never heard that happend in my family, nebour or any closest. So your ponit is 1000% correct
There is no case of sati in Ramayana or Mahabharata, where countless men died. But yet, sati was an integral part of Hinduism. Thank god the English educated and saved us. Thank you foreigners.
@@BrownBengalee it was not sati. It was more of giving up their life. All their relatives stopped from doing so.
@@diprosaha4147 madri did kunti didnt simple it was optional
Pretty much suicide
@@BrownBengalee krishna only had one wife atleast in mahabharat not talking about puran
@@विनयजोशी1 I am aware of that but the commenter should know that .
@@BrownBengalee the concept of krishna having multiple wives is not from mahabharata but purans
According to mahabharata krishna only had one wife that is rukmini
She did not commit sati
Exactly! This is so accurate! In my rubbish history curiculum raja ram mohan roy is potrayed as a glorious person who banished Ill doings and was perfect in every sense, that with only him, India is great🤦♂️
Swami Vivekanand Ramkrishna Paramhans Aurobindo Ghosh were great not that bastard roy
Well I am from Rajput (SISODIA) family and Yes , in my family my great grandmother commited sati and many other family member also committed sati. there are many temples dedicated to sati mata.
Bro really?
Sati wasnt forced
@CONFID3NC3 Abbe jhooth mat bol 🤬
How many members committed sati in your family and in which village/town of India?
Yes. Sati did happen in a few parts of India. But to portray it as a Hindu custom, core to Indian society is misleading and wrong. Every society has had some flaws in their history. But to reduce the society to that flaw, and to magnify that flaw too much so as to instill a feeling of inferiority among young minds is blatantly wrong. They taught us about the French Revolution in such detail in our NCERT books. But did they ever teach us about the witch hunting that was very common across Europe? Our books don't mention that. They only cared about it as long as their propaganda was being fuelled. And since you mentioned that you are a Rajput, did they teach us about the brave Rajput rulers and the sacrifices they made? Or the mighty Marathas whose contributions I won't be able to put down in words in a mere youtube comment? You see, this manipulation and partiality with History SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Sir a friend of mine recommended your channel....now I am hooked♥️♥️
Im from Rajasthan I asked my dad no one has ever heard of anything like that ....like someone has comitted anything like that in past in our village ...and our family is the first family who settled here .... But I never thought about this or asked ....my dad is saying that they have only heard about it ...
@@rahultiwari-dx8qo bhai tumhare ghar me hogi to ban hogi hamare to thi hi nahi.....
@@kaizen_monk Bro No one saying it didn't happened It happened but in some parts moreover why it started it started with jauhar to prevent Female barbaric cruelty .Any one can see it today in Afghanistan so It was on Female choice I just if sati was continuous practice for women then why widow women laws because after death of husband usually Women should die
We don’t even have to look too far back for examples of self immolation. A lot of us would remember the Mandal commision protests. Awesome work!! Love your channel!
What were the protests about?
Only Educators like you can wake Bhartiya people from their post colonial hangover.
Keep making videos sir and keep educating us.🙏🙏
The way we are cursed to forget our past our history by lies + lies + more lies. All this done to demotivate us so that we can forget our power our potential like hanumanji
And sir you were like that bear in ramayan who reminds hanumanji about his potential by calling
"JAGO HANUMAN TUMHE BALWAN"
Even in Ramayana when raja dhasratha died his wives never did sati .
Great information sir 🙏🏻👌🏻👌🏻
This is the real truth ...
I hope our books and teachings change soon as fast as it can ✨🥺 well I passed 12th last year so we weren't lucky to study the truth but now by watching all your videos I've got many books you recommended and I'm gonna study all those and you gave me an Aim in life it looks .... I'm a science student but I'm taking history hons. And gonna contribute as much as I can so that our future gen. Students study real history in schools and colleges ✨❤️🇮🇳
I am from Goa my forefathers are and were from Goa we are Sanatani no matter Inquisition or not but we in our family did not come across any such happenings, never heard my parents reciting about such incidents.
Thank you for opening our eyes!
I asked this question to my Great Grand mother, She is 97 now.
She remembered 2 cases of Sati and She said It was voluntary in nature, even society prevent them not to do, but they somehow did.
I think sati was practiced but not widespread i have to study in depth to know the truth .
Dowry & child marriage is also banned but still exists in society.
Any thoughts!!
She is 97 so she knows max. upto 1924. But sati was banned in 1829. How will she know?
@@dr.prativaranjande3615 by stories of her grandmother.
@@punyashloka4946 self immolation cant be tagged as social issue
can you say suicide pratha coz ppl are committing suicides
I am from Rajasthan..we have our Sati Mata near Nasirabad, Ajmer. Hundreds of years ago, one of our past female family member became Sati. We have a Sati temple there.
Who even remembers about 1800s to know about whether anyone from family gone through sati
I belong to a rajasthani clan of Hada vansh. In our society there is a sati mata but she became sati because of her own choice and not because some peer pressure. She is worshiped in my house during every evening prayer.
Dont promote such things. Make your daughters strong.
@@sunilbalooni5137 bruh you have to be strong to take such a decision
@@sunilbalooni5137 Bro I am not promoting sati. I am just saying the facts. This is what used to happen back then.
She was actually burned alive forcibly. "Her own choice" and other things are just a cover up.
Great analysis! Wish history was taught to us like this! I have also thought about the famines happening in British times. Not a single famine happened after independence. So, clearly it was artificially imposed on us by them. During the 1943 bengal famine that killed 3 million people of starvation, Winston Churchill quoted that Indians breed like rabbits and it might be ok to lose a few.
Thank You *SIR*
For EXPOSING the Great Social "REFORMER"
🙂
U hindians don't know about Sanatan dharma, we Bengalis spread our culture through the entire world with the help of swami vivekananda, srila Prabhupada (iskon)
In next coming days you people will say Swami Vivekananda was not even hindu! Just because his speech against blind beliefs
Well, before learning about our forgotten past we first have to unlearn all this, it's tough but we're gonna make it
As a proud Sanatani I used to be worried about the 'fact' that our ancestors used to practice this sati pratha. You destroyed this widely accepted lie in minutes. My soul will be forever thankful.
A comment mentioned, there's a book by historian Dr. Meenakshi Jain about Sati. It mentions that Sati was never the norm. I will read that book next.
Abhijit Chavda sir always logical and right.🙏🙏
Sir even in Assam history(taught in class 8th) , there was never anything like Sati practiced then kings or people .
Now, that you asked it makes sense if Sati actually happened or not.
Same in Odisha..we Odia and Assamese share border with Bengal. There is no mention of Sati Pratha in writing of Sankar Deva and Chaitanya.It just hogwash by Missionaries.
I also asked this question to my grandfather who is 79 years old and he said No
It surely indicates now how much I have to unlearn.
This channel is the best channel of RUclips ❤️❤️,sir your knowledge is wowwww🔥🔥
Great work Sir
I genuinely appreciate ur knowledge
Please make more such videos
This knowledge should reach millions in India
Thank you sir
Thank you Abhijit for exposing Roy & Sati.
Ms Meenakshi Jain wrote a scholarly work on this topic, titled *"Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse"*
After watching this extraordinary video I realise I just lost my many hours during school Time 😔
and also we paid so much to learn false history in schools 😥😣😔 false history padhne se accha to history hi nhi padhte 🙏🏼
U r incredible, Abhijitji. I've been sharing ur videos. Keep up the good work! 👍 Jai Bharat!🙏🕉
Time itself shall remember you ,O mighty soldier of Dharma . I bow down to the divine within you 🙇
In my family, one ancestor of mine performed Sati after the death of her husband. But she herself became Sati on her own will. She was in her parents home when her husband died, she got to know mystically about the death of her husband and she told her parents that she would perform Sati and she eventually came back to our village home and performed sati. And now we worship her as Devi. On every occasion, our Sati Mata is worshipped along with our Kuldevi. But we haven't heard any other sati than her in the whole of my family line.
But why you worship her it doesn't make any sense to me .
@@punyashloka4946 why? we worship females we have so many goddesses who protected ppl who evil beings 🙏🏼
But why do they say there was no sati?!
@@abyabraham1136 There may be very very few cases and it would be minimal wrt the population of India.
It seems we're still being fed British Propaganda even to till this day through our school books. Thanks for the REAL history lesson, Sir. 🙏
@Diksha No. 😊 Nobody should your enemy unless someone tries to vanquish your very existence. Be it Hindu or Non-Hindu. Putting labels only breeds disharmony.
Calling Raja Ram Mohan Ray a 'British agent' is a bitter pill to swallow.
Jhansi Rani Lakshmi bhai was a widow when she fought against British and died in 1858, William bentnick claim he ended sati sahagamanam 1878.
I have 1 question in my mind....did only Hinduism had bad practices?
What about islam where triple talaq and halala are practised till this day? Why no one talks about them as openly they do against sati ?
Doesn't christanity have any bad practices?
you must understand evil deeds are called as adharm so hindu dharm (sanatan dharm) condemnes any evil act !
dharm aur religion ek nhi hota
abrahmic religion doesnt have concept ! their even jesus dies for sinners thereby protecting sinners but acc to our dharma paramatma punishes sinners you have to face karma 🙏🏼
also christianity and islam themselves are demonic cults who believe in slaughtering non believers 😓
also christians all around europe used to burn thousands to millions of widows alive (witch hunting) and women in US struggled a lot to get as basic as right to vote 😓
@Pragnesh Kumar kya change hua hinduism me? Abhi tak discrimination ka change toh kuch nahi hua
Bhagavan krishna ji ko jo problem nahi hua caste se lekin inlogo me abhi bhi hai
Jaise Muslim nahi maan rahe hai jaise hindu bhi hai aaj bhi
sati isnt even mentioned in vedas and upanishads bro
hinduism is very diverse,its not like abrahamic religons
Islam is a non**cal reliogion so do sanatan and so do chirtanity. Its better to renounce your all religious ideologies and become a human being.
In our region, every old person says that there had been this sati pratha here. There are places specifically marked as Sati daha grounds and kali bedis are built.
My family never practiced any kind of sati
We need to reform our educational system. Thank you for opening my eyes.
Need visionaries like Abhijit ji for modern India to revive it's glory back.
I hope one day our History books will be rewritten in true spirit..I request Govt to make sure to take inputs from Abhijit Chawda Sir in this process..
Mother of Shivaji Maharaj "Jijabai " also didn't go for Sati. Kunti from Mahabharat also didn't go Sati.
But Madri committed sati
@@praveendhanasekar2555 yeah her choice
Yes....'Sati' is a created tradition by British........its time to rewrite the history
No sir u are wrong in this. May be it was not rampant ,or it may happened only in fewer caste lines, but in my area of bengal, I have stories of sati practices personally in my family. The worst part I have heard about sati was, there was wide spread child marriages of very young brides of as young as 10 years old to very old people ,and when these old die, the child was forced to jump on that fire. I came from a family of jamindars ,(now poor 😂 ) and we actually have records of those purohits who performed sati ,because there was some kind of quasi system that, only a certain purohit can perform the ritual on a specific time, so some kind of record was maintained. .
We are not denying the existence of sati. It did exist. It happened at many places. But if you look at NCERT History textbook, they have portrayed it in a way that it was a norm everywhere. This subliminally makes everyone believe that it was a malpractice of Hinduism. Now you tell me, India is such a diverse country. There are so many customs that are so varied. For example, in certain communities from the southern part of India marriages between cousins is prevalent. But can you say that it is the culture of the entire nation? Is it a Hindu custom? It is not. This is the problem. They portrayed Sati as something that Hindus do. This is wrong. And no one can justify it. Few hundred women performed Sati (voluntarily in most cases), doesn't mean that it was a core of Hindu culture.