The women would build a great bonfire, and in their wedding finery, with their children and with all their valuables, they would immolate themselves en masse. ↑ Pratibha Jain, Saṅgītā Śarmā, Honour, status & polity ↑ Mandakranta Bose (2014), Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0195352771, page 26 ↑ Malise Ruthven (2007), Fundamentalism: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199212705, page 63; John Stratton Hawley (1994), Sati, the Blessing and the Curse, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0195077742, page 165-166 1 2 Claude Markovits (2004).