Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s1.137

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tion with *Jauhar*. Compare A.A., II, 4, for a typical illustration, which reminds one of the scenes related in the ‘Count of Monte Cristo’ by the Albanian princess. In a few words, when the Rajputs found they were losing a fight, they ordered their mansions to be surrounded with oil and hay. The women were locked in and a man was appointed to watch the fact of the battle. If he was sure that defeat and disaster were unavoidable, he exercised his authority and lighted the fatal pile. Compare P.P., 13, how on the death of Hamir Deva, his women deliberately offered themselves for Suttee as ‘an act befitting true women’. Compare also the account of *Tarikh Muzaffar Shahi*, 35, for the voluntary self-immolation of the wives of a Raja on the advance of Muzaffar Shah of Gujarat.