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“The Widow Remarriage Act was, in many ways, a logical sequel to the abolition of Sati.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Social and Religious Reform Movements in Bengal and Other Areas

Banning sati without addressing the fate that awaited a surviving widow simply relocated her suffering, making some form of the Hindu Widow Remarriage Act, 1856 the logical next step in reform.

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