premise: The self-immolation of widows, known as sati a widow becomes sati, a  virtuous woman,  by climbing onto her husband's funeral pyre has disappeared, but the monkey-god Hanuman and elephant-headed Ganesh are still idolized, and nobody will dare to deny the sanctity of the cow and all her  milk, curd, butter, and dung, the last of which is used for fuel.
hypothesis: Intervention by the United Nations was the primary reason as to why this self-immolation practice stopped.