To ensure that women were not forced to commit sati against their will Akbar appointed officials in every town so that only ‘those who of their own impulse wished to commit sati might be allowed to do so’. Akbar had already decreed that ‘Hindu child-widows who had not enjoyed conjugal relations should not be burnt; but if the Hindus should find this difficult, they were not to be interfered with.’ It was a fine balance that Akbar tried to maintain,
Amazing views on Sati the practice of bride burni
