Question

Which social reformer worked for the ban on the sati system?
(A) Vidya Sagar
(B) Rajaram Mohan Roy
(C) Mahatma Jyotiba Phule
(D) Swami Vivekananda

Answer 1

Hint: India is a country famous for all its rituals and culture all over the world but it has some negative points too. The sati system is one of them in which if a husband died so his wife, the widow had to sacrifice herself with her husband in her husband's funeral only by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre.

Complete answer:
The Sati system is a historical Hindu practice. The time period is of the eighteenth century. According to ancient Indian costumes, Sati symbolized closure to a marriage. It was an optional act in which, as a sign of being a dutiful wife, a woman followed her husband to the afterlife, as it is an optional activity but in some backward areas it is forced on women that she just had to perform the sati system and later become horrible and totally unfair later some realistic heroes realized that it’s totally unfair and worked to band it Raja Ram Mohan Roy is social reformer worked for the ban on sati system he was one of the founder of Brahmo Sabha he was given the title of Raja by Akbar II the Mughal emperor and sir Lord William Bentinck became the Governor-General of India in 1828. He helped Raja Rammohan Roy to suppress many prevalent social evils and the sati system is one of them.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note: According to Indian mythology Sati is a wife of lord shiva but her father never respected the lord shiva and once he performed the great “Mahayagya”and did not invite the lord shiva to protest against the hatred of her father she burnt herself for her husband's respect.