cmsellers wrote: (Moreover, Hindus don't generally engage in "honor killings" so much as sati, which is a slightly different horrific practice.)
Actually, Sati is almost obsolete nowadays. I don't think I have heard of a single Sati incident for many years. Honour killings by Hindus though? Definitely happen.
ShuaiGuy wrote:Don't Indians do a fair amount of honor killings? Is that only the Muslim subset of Indians that do it?
India has definitely seen a lot honour killings, especially in recent times. I have not seen as many Muslim ones in the news as Hindu ones. I may have mentioned it somewhere here that castes and clans are still an important thing in the rural north and west. That's where such cases happen, mostly when someone's found dating a person from a different caste/the same clan. The Court and the media are quick to take action though, as in the case of Manoj and Babli, where the clan leader was imprisoned for life for ordering the brutal killings and the perpetrators executed for carrying them out. Honour killings is almost non-existent in the east and the south, thankfully.