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“Banning Practice of ‘Sati’ is attributed to annihilation of a major social evil in colonial India.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Impact of Colonial Rule on Indian Society

The statement compresses two claims: that sati was the major social evil of colonial India, and that banning it annihilated that evil. The first exaggerates scale; the second is refuted by events. What the ban achieved was different and more consequential — it established that custom could be overridden by statute.

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  • What the ban genuinely achieved
  • Why "annihilation of a major social evil" overstates the case
  • The evidence that it was not annihilated
  • Conclusion

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