Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829
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The Bengal Sati Regulation, or Regulation XVII, A. D. 1829 of the Bengal Code was a legal act promulgated in British India under East India Company rule, by the then Governor-General Lord William Bent
Aquatint from the early 19th century purporting to show ritual preparation for the immolation of a Hindu widow, shown in a white sari near the water, atop the funeral pyre of her deceased husband.
An etching from the early 19th century purporting to show a Hindu widow being led—past the body of her deceased husband—to the funeral pyre to sit atop it beside her husband's body and to immolate herself.
Plaque of Last Legal Sati of Bengal, Scottish Church College, Kolkata
Widow Burning in India (August 1852).
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
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Raja Ram Mohan Roy was an Indian social reformer and writer who was one of the founders of the Brahmo Sabha in 1828, the precursor of the Brahmo Samaj, a socio-religious reform movement in the Indian
Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829
…most prominent campaigners to end the practice of sati were led by British Christian evangelists, such as William Carey, and Hindu reformers such as Ram Mohan Roy. The fervent opposition came from some conservative Hindus, staunchly led by Radhakanta Deb and the Dharma Sabha who saw the ban as an interference in…
Roy in London (1833), half portrait by Rembrandt Peale
Ram Mohan Roy on a 1964 stamp of India.
Five laws of library science, 1931
Epitaph for Ram Mohan Roy on his Mausoleum.