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What do you understand by ‘Sati’? Who put an end to this practice and why?
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Solution
Sati was an inhuman practice of widow immolation at the funeral pyre of her husband. It was prevalent in many parts of India, especially in Bengal. Lord William Bentinck abolished Sati in 1829.
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