Raja Ram Mohan Roy, a prominent social reformer, actively campaigned against Sati, which was the practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
सतीची चाल नष् किरण्यासाठी किोणी मुलतः प्रयत्न किे ले ?
Asked in MPSC CS Prelims 2023 · Topic: Social Religious Movement (Women's Issues: Abolition of Sati, Widow Remarriage, Child Marriage, Women's Education)
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