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2. Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. 1829 in India - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version ... Events in the year 1829 in India ... 4 December – Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829; References This page was last edited on 21 ...

4. Sati (practice) - Wikipedia

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   Opposition to the practice of sati by evangelists like Carey, and by Hindu reformers such as Raja Ram Mohan Roy ultimately led the British Governor-General of India Lord William Bentinck to enact the Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829, declaring the practice of burning or burying alive of Hindu widows to be punishable by the criminal courts.

5. Raja Ram Mohan Roy - Wikipedia

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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 ...

6. Dinesh Chandra Sen - Wikipedia

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   History of Bengali Language and Literature (1911) Sati (1916) The Vaishnava Literature of Medieval Bengal (1917) Chaitanya and His Companions (1917) The Folk Literature of Bengal (1920) The Bengali Ramayana (1920) Bengali Prose Style, 1800-1857 (1921) Chaitanya and His Age (1922) Eastern Bengal Ballads in four volumes (1923–1932) Glimpses of ...

7. Bhabani Charan Bandyopadhyay - Wikipedia

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   He wrote many books in lucid Bengali. Gourishankar Tarkobagish, a famous journalist of that era, commented highly about his writing skill in Sambad Bhaskar . In 1821–22, in Samachar Darpan , several works came out like Babur Upakhyan , Briddhyer Bibaho , Brahmin Pundit and others, that bear the mark of his unique satirical ability.

8. List of governors-general of India - Wikipedia

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   Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829; Suppression of Thuggee (1829–1835) Kol Rebellion (1831) Barasat Uprising (1831), led by Titumir; Annexation of Mysore (1831), Coorg (1834), and central Cachar (1834) Charter Act 1833 (administrative reforms as well as formalising the non-discrimination in employment of Indians by religion)

9. Sekhar Bandyopadhyay - Wikipedia

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   "Caste in the Perception of the Raj: A Note on the Evolution of Colonial Sociology of Bengal", Bengal Past and Present, CIV, Parts I–II (198–199) (January–December 1985), pp. 56–80. "Caste, Class and Census: Aspects of Social Mobility in Bengal under the Raj, 1872-1931", The Calcutta Historical Journal , V (2) (January–June 1981), pp ...