How the fight to burn tires of widows in India was won
Lord William Bentinck outlawed sati in 1829, but the law was later diluted In December 1829, Lord William Bentinck, the first governor general of British-ruled India, banned sati, the ancient Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. Bentinck, then the governor general of Bengal, sought the views of 49 senior […]