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Categories: Women in medieval warfare, All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English, History of women in India, Religion and suicide, Suicide types
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jauhar  74||  Johar  saka
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Jauhar, sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, was a Hindu practice of mass self-immolation by women and girls, in the Indian subcontinent, to avoid capture, enslavement and rape by Turko-Persian Islamic invaders, when facing certain defeat during a war. Wikipedia
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Jauhar, sometimes spelled Jowhar or Juhar, was a Hindu practice of mass self-immolation by women and girls, in the Indian subcontinent, to avoid capture, enslavement and rape by Turko-Persian Islamic invaders, when facing certain defeat during a war. Wikipedia
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The mass suicide of Rajput women in order to escape defilement by foreign conquerors. Wiktionary
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customary law
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saka (self immolation)
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74||, Johar

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