Missionaries presented sati as murder or suicide, and Left-feminists adhered that sati system was part of hindu tradition and degraded hinduism.

1. Sati system – Evangelical
Missionaries, British forgery
discourse
Introduction
In the previous article sati practice, I wrote the historical facts whether sati practice is mandatory
according to religious and legal texts, and also the foreign travellers’ accounts, sculpture evidence
from ancient India period to pre british era
Now I will write the stunning facts how these colonials created and drilled into our minds about
the lies on sati system and abolition of sati.
Early British appreciation of Indian traditional background –
Before going to the British baptist missionaries manufactured debate on sati system, we will see
how the east Indian company praised our Indian culture and civilisation when they set foot in
India .
The records say that early English men are in full praise of our culture. How they evaluated and
analysed our Hindu civilization which is very important to know which are not at all debated still
today.
First of all, we should examine the first account by john grose account who is an east India
company employee.

2. Another east Indian company employee testimonial by John Howell.
Another employee Alexander Dow who is lieutenant of east India company
military wrote a book in 1770 ( History of Hindustan)
Other persons luke scrafton , Robert Orme , George Forster and few more also wrote good
testimonials on Indian culture and traditions, knowledge.
They are not historians or they are not bound to write. They wrote without partiality what they
have seen and read about Indian culture.
All of them are praising our culture and how well advanced in science and greatness of Sanskrit
etc.
The Orientalists-
Warren hastings the first governor-general of India and he with a band of scholars encouraged to
study the Indian sculptures, architecture, Ancient Indian texts, language, culture.
The group of orientalists who made a systematic study and made lot of accounts , books, records
about our Indian culture greatness to this mankind
Warren hastings who has the passion of Indian culture and he used to visit kali ghat temple and
also use to meet Sanskrit pandits in Banaras to understand the Indian texts and the culture.
He gathered a group of orientalists and they are Nathaniel halhed , Charles Wilkins, Jonathan
Duncan and William Jones. Also H.T Colebrooke, H.H Wilson, James prince
These all people made lot of contribution to Indian culture , philosophy, archaeology etc.

3. Warren hastings said we should rule and make laws in India through Indian institutions and
ancient texts. He is not interested to bring English laws.
Hastings and this orientalists with the help of Vedic pandits translated the ancient Shastras with
the expenses of the east Indian company.
In 1778 halhed published a grammar book of Bengali language. He said Sanskrit is the mother of
all Indian languages.
Charles Wilkins, he engaged in the study of Sanskrit and he translated the Bhagavad Gita and this
is the first translation into European languages from Sanskrit. He also translated hitopadesha and
wrote a grammar of Sanskrit.
Asiatic society of bengal-
In 1784 with the patronage of hatings Asiatic Society of Bengal was established. This society
gave the knowledge of India to westerners people through their articles, publications.
Willians jones translated Kalidas and it made European people think about the greatness of Indian
literature.
H.T.Collebroke became head of Asiatic society and he also made a lot of contributions in
publishing ancient antiquities. Jonathan Duncan, he established Sanskrit college in Banaras.
H.H. Wilson, he was secretary of Asiatic Society of Bengal. He translated Vishnu Puranas and
Rigveda. He always praised Sanskrit which is the base of Indian culture.
These people all promoted and praised our Indian culture and made lot of contributions.
Other than these orientalists so many other European scholars also praised our Indian culture and
told Indians were most civilised people.
Robert baker presented a paper to royal Asiatic society and he mentioned the mathematical
exactness of stone instruments of the observatory in Banaras
So all these people who admired India and why in the end of the 18th century our India was
suddenly projected as the land of evil customs.
The Evangelical movement-
Till now we saw the appreciation of Indian culture and why it suddenly the discourse has shifted
against India.
In 1789 evangelical movement came in England to spread religion among masses. The principle
of this movement is to avoid the turbulence, chaos, bloodshed brought by the french revolution so
this is the only way to spread the religion.
When the french revolution is its high peak and millions of Bibles were distributed in Britain and
evangelicals said the spread of bible brings prosperity to British and also to the land it controls.
The Evangelicals established societies like London missionary society(1795), Church missionary
society(1799) and British and Foreign Bible Society (1804).
Charles grant brought these missionaries to India and he was the first person to argue that India
must be baptised and westernised, Christianised. If we obtain these objectives then the British
rule in India will be permanent.
The other English men use to say British rule may continue in India for almost for 50-60 years,
but Charles grant is the first person to say if we take these steps of Christianizing India by
bringing western education.
In 1786 He prepared a plan ‘’Mission to Bengal” by Dividing the Bengal into 8 missionary
circles and set up schools and churches to propagated western education and Christianity.
He presented this plan to east India company in 1792 and after that, he became head of east India
company and this document was printed as a parliamentary paper in 1813.
This document exposes the evangelical mindset and it totally condemns and denounces the Hindu
society.

4. 2 Decades Before 1792 the same east Indian company men were praising the Indian society for
their great culture, knowledge and civilisation.
From 1792 the discourse has changed against India after this document published (Observations
on the state of society among the Asiatic subjects of great Britan).
In 1805 Charles grant was made the director of east India company and in 1806 James mill and
Jeremy Bentham were leaders of the utilitarian movement in England and they formed an alliance
with evangelicals.
James mill who never visited India and no idea of India but in 1806 he began to write Indian
history. He echoes the Charles grant views and his book became a textbook to English men who
enter into British service in India. He is the first person to write anti-Hindu books.
These utilitarians joined with missionaries and became a strong force. These were placed in the
important position of east India company in India.
The missionaries are not allowed to India to preach Christianity in the company territory but they
first entered into a dutch colony of Serampore in Bengal. The main people in Serampore
missionary are Willian Carey, William ward, Joshua Marshman.
They played cunning tactics by preaching in the streets against Hinduism. William Carey created
doubts in worshippers mind by creating confusion is worshipping lord Saraswathi is correct? He
also propagated that brahmins are ignorant people and also Joshua Marshman also did the same
thing.
The first thing is they ridiculed the Hindu gods and also propagated against brahmins because
they know brahmins are an obstacle to their conversions. Women were forced to jump into pyre
by brahmins. Women were drugged and tied with ropes so that they cant run away. They once
challenged a brahmin if you have the power in you then stop the sunset.
They compared the Hindu culture with poison and lowering the Hindu texts in the minds of
people.
Female Infanticide–
They created a story of female infanticide and they passed a law in 1802 to ban female
infanticide. The surprise is there is no protest because this practice is not existent. The created
stories to convince British company that reformist Christian state was required in India.
But H.H.Wilson secretary of Asiatic society condemned by saying there is no such practice in
Hindu society and it is very rare. Willian jones condemned there is no such practice.
Claudius Buchanan wrote publications against Hinduism and in 1811 William Ward also created
accounts against Hinduism and sati was high incidence, forced. Missionaries published these
accounts widely in their journals to raise funds
Missionaries were not allowed to India except Serampore and if they arrive to India they were
sent back to England because the British told it will affect their rule in India.
Missionaries were not allowed by the British parliament from 1793 to 1813. In every 20 years,
east India company charter act is to be renowned. In 1813 missionaries requested for entry into
India. The former east India company officials argued the missionary accounts were false which
were written against India and they didn’t give permission to enter into India and henry
Montgomery said missionaries will not get success in Christianizing India.
He made an interesting statement Women jumping into the pyre of their husband is not a
religious rite and sati was not sanctioned by Hindu scriptures.
But finally with William Wilberforce intervention finally parliament agreed to give permission to
missionaries to enter into British territory in India. The missionaries numerous petitions and
influence made parliament to give permission to missionaries and missionaries entered into India
to destroy our Hindu culture.
I wrote all the points because to tell the readers how the missionaries and some east india
company officials made planning and cunning tactics to defame Indian culture and got
permission. This made some other British officials viewpoint that India is a land of evil customs
and English rule is a must to introduce a civilisation.
Missionary surveys – Role of baptist missionaries from England.

5. Here we divide this missionary propaganda into 2 phases and 1st phase -1803-1813 and 2nd
phase-1813-1829.
In 1803 the missionaries appointed ten people to record the cases of sati in and around Calcutta.
First of British got control and rule over Bengal region.so they had chosen this region.
In 1803 missionaries did survey in and around 30 km of Calcutta and recorded around 430 cases
and basin on these numbers they calculated and assumed that thousands of sati incidents were
happening all over India. William Carey wrote a letter in 1812 to his friend by saying every year
10000 forceful sati incidents are happening in India.
Charles grant who wrote book in 1792 before (1803)missionaries survey said every year 33000
women were murdered along with husband pyres without any study.
Government Survey-
Charles lushington who is a chief of the government condemned the missionaries survey and
there was no base for the numbers.
This the first counter to missionaries propaganda.
In the 2nd phase from 1815-1824, the British government did surveys in the 3 presidencies of
Bengal, Bombay and madras and they found 6632 sati cases and 90% cases are from Bengal
In Bombay and madras presidency between 1815-1820 only 50 sati incidents occurred. South
Malabar judge wrote a letter that no incidents occurred in his region and 2 incidents were stopped
by the neighbours and family members. He says the people resisted the sati system.
Madras and Bombay presidency judges also told sati incidents are very rare in their region.
Sati system in Bengal-
In history, nobody said a lot of sati is happening in Bengal, then why suddenly this exaggeration
of thousands of cases have been created because Calcutta is the city of renaissance and land of
intellectuals. Missionaries to accomplish their mission they created this non-sense.
The no of cases in Bengal presidency is very low but missionaries propagated that one husband
has 30 wives and it continuously for 3 days the pyre was burning to complete the women
immolation.
Eminent historian Christopher Bayly says the number is an exaggeration to defame Hinduism.
Between 1817 to 1827 only 4323 cases were recorded out of 160 million population of British
ruling terrorism in India. He also says the practice of sati in the region of Calcutta is also very
negligible.
As we discussed they were sati stones and temples in India. If it is true then why no sati stones
exist in Bengal.
Missionary propaganda-
Robert Pearce wrote in his correspondence that between 1756 to 1829 more than 70000 women
were immolated and sati system in India was cruel. The baptist missionaries in Indian Journals
propagated by 1829 that 1 million widows immolated in Bengal. How they got this number has
no evidence.?
Missionaries also told that young girls of age 8 to 10 were thrown into pyre but According to
government statistics, 60% of the widows who immolated themselves were older than 40 years.
One by one account keeps on increasing the figures of sati system.
Abolition of sati –
In 1828 William Bentick was appointed as governor-general of India.
Before his arrival into India, he wrote a letter to his friend that he is going to take this sati issue
very seriously and after arriving to India within 18 months he abolished sati system.
In 1829 baptist missionaries pleaded a petition to abolish sati and there was no resistance to this
abolition sati act 1829.
After passing this act there was no single incident occurred. But how? They propagated thousands
of women are immolating themselves but how it was stopped suddenly after passing the law. We
should think about this.
Actually, we have discussed it is negligible and already this sati system was dying at that time.

6. Who abolished sati?
The British historians wrote William Bentick who was the governor-general abolished sati and
they made him a reformer. But we should know some real facts who abolished sati before the
British. Please check the image below.
Raja ram Mohan Roy –
Who stopped sati system in India? We say raja ram Mohan Roy which we studied in our
textbooks.
Who was raja ram moha, Roy? he is a social reformer in Bengal and fought against the sati.
There is an allegation raja ram Mohan Roy also echoed the British propaganda and supported
English education and opposed Sanskrit. He loves Sanskrit but opposes Sanskrit.
He said Sanskrit education will keep the country in darkness. He praised British rule in India
Raja ram Mohan Roy has a friendship with British officials and he spent his life and died in
London. He was part of a queen official meeting which is only restricted to English men.
https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-in-india/how-one-tweet-caused-raja-ram-
mohan-roy-sati-to-trend-on-twitter/
Special mention –
George Forster 1782-many of Hindu widows especially in the MarathaRegion have acquired by
their ability, their wealth, connection, or intrigue, the possession of extensive power and
influence.
A judge is Bengal also wrote a letter that 52 women filed cases in court to acquire their husband
properties.
But the British brought a law that inheritance of property to the widow is stuck down.. So taking
this law as an advantage some of the widow neighbours forcefully burnt widows with husband
pyre.

7. Let us assume sati incidents were not recorded properly from the ancient period to till British.
Lakhs of women were burnt then how come the population of India increased.
http://www.populstat.info/Asia/indiac.htm
Witchhunt in Europe–
In the name of witch hunt, they burnt so many women in Europe.
More people died in France and England every month through suicide and duelling than widows
burnt in a year -Abbe Dubois
Jauhar Kund Chittorgarh-
Here Jauhar is different and not related to sati. It was done by a group of women if their husbands
die in a war and to protect their chastity from the invaders they did Jauhar. We saw already in
Padmavati film.
Sati system in india-
Sati sahagamana means not forcing the wife into the husband pyre. If the husband dies and the
wife also dies immediately and her soul goes along with him that is called as sahagamana.
We have lot of examples seeing if a husband dies after hearing the news wife also died.
Sati in India today-
In 1943-1987 30 incidents occurred in India and last sati case occurred in Rajasthan by 1 18-
year-old woman Roopa Kanwar. After that Government of India brought sati abolition act
1987 to stop these incidents.
In 2006 one incident occurred
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5273336.stm
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/16/us/husband-and-wife-die-same-day-71-years-trnd/index.html
Sati which i know-
Sati means not only jumping into the fire it may be dead after listening to the death news of her
husband or committing suicide.
In my apartment, an old couple has a daughter and the daughter husband died due to health issues
and after his death, she committed suicide by hitting a train. She told before if her husband dies
she will also die. She loves her husband like anything even though he scolds her and beats hr also
she still loves him.
Conclusion–

8. So this article is big but i wrote to tell the facts and these British and missionaries did bad
propaganda and it was adhered by the leftists’ historians also.
In my childhood, i read in textbooks and in films i saw that sati system was prevalent in India and
sati was an evil practice encouraged by Hindu scriptures.
So for more information please read the book written by Meenakshi Jain. She did 15 years
research on this sati.
Finally, Does any Hindu philosophy support Sati Pratha? Not at all.
https://www.amazon.in/Sati-Evangelicals-Missionaries-Changing-Discourse/dp/8173055521