Answer in short : Analyse the role of the British in the reform movements of India ns:
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British introduced important social reforms in the country. For example, the Bengal Sati Regulation Act was passed in 1829, declaring the practise of Sati as illegal. They also passed the Widow Remarriage Act in 1856. These reforms received mixed response from Indians. While progressive and educated Indians welcomed these reforms, conservative Indians considered these reforms as interferences made by the British in Indian. They criticised the British for passing these reforms.
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After two decades of intensely Conservative rule, the logjam broke in the late 1820s with the repeal of obsolete restriction on nonconformist, followed by the dramatic removal of severe limitations on Catholic in Britain.
The radical movement campaigned for electoral reform, against child labour, for a reform of the poor law, free trade, educational reform, prison reform and public sanitisation. Originally this movement sought to replace the exclusive political power of the aristocracy with a more democratic system empowering urban areas and the Middle and the working classes. The energy of reform emerged from the religious fervour of the evangelical element in the established church of England and, Evangelical workers in the nonconformist Church, especially rhe methdist.