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However, Mill goes on in this preface to say that his work is a “critical, or judging history”, encompassing singularly harsh judgements of Hindu customs and denouncements of a “backward” culture notable for superstition, ignorance, and the mistreatment of women.His work was influential in the eventual banning by the British of the Hindu tradition of a widow being forced to immolate herself after her husband’s death, known as Sati, in 1829.
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