One man’s campaign to legalise traditional Hindu funerals in the UK
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
As everyone knows, Hindus have from ancient times cremated the deceased. This has many advantages, not least the prevention of excessive space being used on graveyards.Traditionally the Hindu cremation used to taken place on an open-air funeral pyre, but in the UK this is currently illegal. Therefore cremations in Britain take place via an electrical furnace. The last legal open-air funeral that took place in Britain was that of Sumshere Jung, a Nepalese princess and the wife of the Napalese ambassador, in Woking in 1934.
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