Raja Rammohan Roy was responsible for which of the following reforms 1 Abolition of S...........

Modern Indian History Socio-religious reform Movements

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Raja Rammohan Roy was responsible for which of the following reforms?

1. Abolition of Sati

2. Abolition of child marriage

3. widow remarriage

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1 and 2

1, 2 and 3

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Explanation:

1. With the efforts of Raja Rammohan Roy Sati was abolished on 4 December 1829, in all the lands under Bengal Presidency by Lord William Bentinck.

2. Keshab Chandra Sen played pivotal role in abolition of child marriage and persuaded the British Govt to pass the Special Marriage Act in 1872. It made the marriageable age of a boy to be 18 years and for a girl 14 years,

3. It was through the efforts of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856, also Act XV, 1856, enacted on 26 July 1856 to legalise the remarriage of Hindu widows in all jurisdictions of India under East India Company.