subject: Jauhar, Ritual death by Burning in the Face of Defeat [print this page] However this sytem of mass burning slowly died down as the Rajputs made peace with the Moslem conquerors and started giving their daughters in marriage to the Moslems. This was an admission of defeat and history records that the concept of Jauhar itself died down. Social scientists must study this defeatist mindset of the Rajputs and analyse what prompted these mass suicides.
Jauhar, Ritual death by Burning in the Face of Defeat
