In a culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" — the tradition of burning widows on the 1/4
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funeral pyres of their husbands. General Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural: You say that it is your custom to burn widows. 2/4
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Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. 3/4
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Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours. 4/4
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