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The Prevention of Sati Act makes it illegal to support, glorify or attempt to die by sati. Support of sati, including coercing or forcing someone to die by sati, can be punished by death penalty or life imprisonment, while glorifying sati is punishable with one to seven years in prison. Enforcement of these measures is not always consistent. [146]
Source: [11] A regulation for declaring the practice of sati, or of burning or burying alive the widows of Hindus, illegal, and punishable by the criminal courts, passed by the governor-general in council on 4 December 1829, corresponding with the 20th Aughun 1236 Bengal era; the 23rd Aughun 1237 Fasli; the 21st Aughun 1237 Vilayati; the 8th Aughun 1886 Samavat; and the 6th Jamadi-us-Sani 1245 ...
Sati (/ ˈ s ʌ t iː /, Sanskrit: सती, IAST: Satī, lit. ' truthful' or 'virtuous '), also known as Dakshayani (Sanskrit: दाक्षायणी, IAST: Dākṣāyaṇī, lit. 'daughter of Daksha'), is the Hindu goddess of marital felicity and longevity, and is worshipped as an aspect of the mother goddess Shakti.
The act was created after the sati of Roop Kanwar in 1987 and applied to all of India except for Jammu and Kashmir. The act incorporated many colonial suppositions about the practice of sati, with the first paragraph of the preamble of the Act copying the opening lines of Lord William Bentinck’s Bengal Sati Regulation , or Regulation XVII of ...
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Ram Mohan Roy was born in Radhanagar, Hooghly District, Bengal Presidency.His great-grandfather Krishnakanta Bandyopadhyay was a Rarhi Kulin (noble) Brahmin.Among Kulin Brahmins – descendants of the five families of Brahmins imported from Kannauj by Ballal Sen in the 12th century as per popular myth – those from the Rarhi district of West Bengal were notorious in the 19th century for ...
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