Quote#World
Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral…
Quote byCharles James Napier · 1782–1853
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Napier, William. (1851) History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, London: Chapman and Hall p. 35.
English (original)
Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.
— Charles James Napier
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