Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s1.140

c7.s1.140

It was difficult for Muslims to remain long without being influenced by the custom of Suttee or the attitude which fostered it, though the cases are not sufficiently numerous or general to emphasize the point. On the whole these tendencies are limited to those who had an aristocratic Hindu origin or lived in a Hindu environment.² Islam must have gone a long way to modify the intensity and the operation of the custom in northern India. Among other direct influences we may note here the latter day popularity of Krishna and Rama cults which gradually changed the religious outlook of the people.³