who was stop the sati system
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Sati pratha' was a Hindu ritual where the widow had to sit on her husband's funeral pyre and burn alive. Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the social reformer who worked hard for the abolition of this ritual.
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Lord William Bentinck became the Governor-General of India in 1828. He helped Raja Rammohan Roy to suppress many prevalent social evils like Sati, polygamy, child marriage and female infanticide. Lord Bentinck passed the law banning Sati throughout the Company's jurisdiction in British India.
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