MPPSC 2015 General Studies Solved Paper-1

(C) The Bengal Sati Regulation or Regulation XVII by the then Governor-General Lord William Bentinck in British India, which made the practice of Sati or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband illegal in all jurisdictions of British India and subject to prosecution. A regulation for declaring the practice of Sati or of burning or burying alive the widows of Hindus was illegal and punishable by the criminal courts, passed by the governor-general in council on 1829.