Question

Highlight the efforts of various reformers to improve the condition of widows in India in the eighteenth century​

Answer 1

• The Hindu Widow Remarriage Act of 1856 legalized the remarriage of Hindu widows on 16 July 1856. The Act was passed on 26 July 1856.
• The introduction of the Widow Remarriage Act was a major change in the status of women during this period. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar played a major role in founding the act. Prior to this act, the custom of Sati was also abolished by Lord William Bentick.
• This act also provided protection and was intended to secure the status of men who married widows.
• The law also stated that widows who remarried were entitled to all the rights and inheritances that a woman remarrying should have.
• Under the deed, a widow lost any inheritance she might have received from her late husband.
• The law also provided legal guarantees to men who married widows.
• However, among the lower castes, widow marriages were commonplace.
• This act was a watershed in the social reform of Indian society during the nineteenth century.
• The first widow remarriage to take place after the Act was enforced took place on 7 December 1856 in North Calcutta. The groom was the son of a close friend of Ishwar Chandra.

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