Paper I · 3 History of India & AP · 3.3.4 British administration

3.3.4.6 Social legislation under British rule: sati, widow remarriage and age of consent

Reformers pressed and the colonial state legislated, cautiously, on sati, widowhood, infanticide and child marriage, but after 1857 the government held back from social laws it feared would rouse opposition.

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Key terms

  • sati
  • Regulation XVII 1829
  • widow remarriage 1856
  • female infanticide
  • Age of Consent 1891
  • Sarda Act 1929
  • Special Marriage Act 1872
  • Veeresalingam

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