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How did social legislation in the nineteenth century improve the condition of women in India?

  • UPSC 2009
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

Nineteenth-century social legislation was the state's instrument for translating reformist agitation into enforceable change, and although its immediate social impact was often modest, it created the legal architecture on which later improvement in women's status would be built.

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  • The Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829: Securing the Right to Life
  • The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856: Restoring the Right to a Full Life
  • The Native Marriage Act, 1872: Choice in Marriage
  • The Age of Consent Act, 1891: Protecting Girlhood
  • Institutional and Educational Reinforcement of Legislation
  • Assessing the Overall Improvement

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