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The Bengal Sati Regulation, [nb 1] or Regulation XVII, A. D. 1829 of the Bengal Code was a legal act promulgated in British India under East India Company rule, by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck.
The Indian Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987 Part I, Section 2(c) defines sati as the act or rite itself. [ 23 ] The spelling suttee is a phonetic spelling using 19th-century English orthography.
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 December 4, 1829 verbatim [2].
Thus on Sunday morning of 4 December 1829 Lord Bentinck issued Regulation XVII declaring sati to be illegal and punishable in criminal courts. It was presented to William Carey for translation. His response is recorded as follows: "Springing to his feet and throwing off his black coat he cried, 'No church for me to-day...
Events in the year 1829 in India. Incumbents ... Measures against Thuggee and sati (practice) are introduced. [1] 4 December – Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829; References
The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act 1856, ... It was the first major social reform legislation after the abolition of sati pratha in 1829 by Lord William Bentinck. [2 ...
The free or forced burning of widows, in a Vedic practise known as Sati, was noted during Alexander's invasion, of 327 BCE. A practice that was codified during the Gupta empire, and later prohibited, in Bengal via Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829, later across India, the last explicit legislation, in India, being the Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987. [110]
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