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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.
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]
The Government, in appreciation of his work, conferred on him the title of Rao Bahadur in 1893. Later he established a home for widows. [4] As per N. Putali Krishnamurthi, Veeresalingam was probably inspired by the writings of Muddu Narasimham Naidu who pioneered the widow remarriage movement and the rationalist movement in Andhra. [6]
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]
Category: Widowhood in India. 5 languages. ... Widow remarriage; Widows of Vidarbha This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 02:17 (UTC). Text ...
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.
Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced by societies with a strong clan structure in which exogamous marriage (i.e. marriage outside the clan) is forbidden.
In matters of social reform the Brahmo Samaj attacked many dogmas and superstitions. It condemned the prevailing Hindu prejudice against sailing across sea and going abroad (Kala Pani). The Samaj condemned practice of Sati (burning of widows), discouraged child marriage and polygamy, and crusaded for widow remarriage.