Originally posted by: Chiillii
Jauhar was Sati in the sense that it would happen after men committed Saka. They tie the red turban with an oath to die fighting as it was no longer possible to win.
Remember the scene in Padmavat movie where Deepika ties the red turban on her husband's head. It was a suicide pact. You are going for dying in battle field and I will die with you here. Yes the reason was not to fall in invaders hands and yes it included unmarried little girls too.
And would extend to in case of Chittor to entire female population of the fort and urban centre.
Infact Jauhar was not done if the husbands and the army were going to win and eventually in Rajasthan after Mughals decimation by British Jauhar should have stopped automatically as British were not pillaging women but it continued by changing into Sati.
Mughals were to a large extent decimated by the Marathas itself. Post 1758 Mughals had become a vassal to Marathas. Probably they would have gained independence but then British started taking more control and defeat Marathas in Anglo Maratha wars(if Mughals would have been in power we would have had Anglo Mughal wars which never happened.) British actually decimated the Marathas and Mughals became their vassals.
Rest agreed pre British invaders were much more brutal and hence women had to take such drastic step.
Again I don't think it was any kind of objectification of women, rather it was the least bad option. Also a kind of psychological warfare that all you win is ashes
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