In which year was the practice of Sati abolished?

1829

The correct answer is 1829, option B. The governing historical concept is nineteenth-century social reform in British India. Raja Rammohan Roy and other reformers criticised Sati and worked to create public and administrative opposition to the practice in which a widow was expected or pressured to die on her husband’s funeral pyre. Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issued Bengal Regulation XVII in 1829, declaring Sati illegal and punishable in the Bengal Presidency. The regulation represented an important intervention against a cruel social practice, although reform debates continued afterward. The other years are distractors: 1813 relates to a different phase of colonial policy, 1857 is associated with the Revolt of 1857, and 1885 marks the founding of the Indian National Congress. Therefore, 1829 is the precise answer.

This is a Class 10 General Knowledge question. Chapter: Indian History. Topic: Important Dates in Indian History.