On attested Rajput practice of sati during wars, see, for example Leslie, Julia (1993). “Suttee or Sati: Victim or Victor?”. Trong Arnold, David; Robb, Peter (biên tập). Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader. 10. London: Routledge. tr. 46. ISBN9780700702848.
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Sophie Gilmartin (1997), The Sati, the Bride, and the Widow: Sacrificial Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Victorian Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 25, No. 1, page 141, Quote: "Suttee, or sati, is the obsolete Hindu practice in which a widow burns herself upon her husband's funeral pyre..."
