Question

The regulation 17 passed by the british government was related to what?

Answer 1

The Bengal Sati Regulation, or Regulation XVII, in British India under East India Company rule, by the then Governor-GeneralLord William Bentinck, which made the practice of sati or suttee—or the immolation of a Hindu widow on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband—illegal in all jurisdictions of British India and subject to prosecution.