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The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act 1856, also Act XV, 1856, passed on 16 July 1856, legalised the remarriage of widows in all jurisdictions of India under East India Company rule. The law was enacted on 26 July 1856. [1] It was drafted by Lord Dalhousie and passed by Lord Canning before the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Hindu scholars and colonial British authorities rejected this argument, states Lucy Carroll, because the alleged custom prohibiting widow remarriage was "far from ancient", and was already in practice among the Hindu communities such as the Rajbansi whose members had petitioned for the prohibition of widow remarriage.
It was permitted for the widows or wives who had no child by their spouse to procreate a child with another man. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The basic purpose of niyoga is to ensure the continuation of the family lineage and to mitigate the financial and social precariousness that a childless widow would have faced in society. [ 4 ]
Ceremony of Burning a Hindu Widow with the Body of her Late Husband, from Pictorial History of China and India, 1851. Following the outcry after the sati of Roop Kanwar, [144] the Government of India enacted the Rajasthan Sati Prevention Ordinance, 1987 on 1 October 1987. [145] and later passed the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987. [23]
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 ...
She built a road from Howrah to Varanasi, which is still in use today. [6] She was also interested in the spread of education and donated generously to many educational institutes. [3] She tried to bring social reform by introducing widow remarriage in society but was unsuccessful.
Amrapali was a celebrated nagarvadhu (royal courtesan) of the republic of Vaishali in ancient India. In the 6th or 5th century BCE, Queen Mṛgāvatī (in Sanskrit ), or Migāvatī (in Prakrit ) of the Vatsa mahajanapada ruled as regent while her son Udayana was either a minor or held captive by a rival king, and she earned "the admiration of ...
Dadoba Pandurang (Tarkhadkar) (9 May 1814– 17 October 1882) (Pune, Maharashtra, British India) was a social reformer and linguistic from Bombay. He was born with the surname Tarkhadkar in a Maharashtrian Vaishya family, but he never used it in later life.