Q. Who among the following Governor General of India is famous for Sati Reforms & suppression of human sacrifice?
Answer: Lord William Bentinck
Notes: The Sati was mainly praticed by the Hindus. An widow was forced sacrifice her life by sitting on the funeral pyre of her deceased husband. In the year 1829, Lord Bebtinct introduced the Regulation XVII and made the practice of sati illegal. Raja Ram mohan Roy, the Maker of Modern India also put his enormous effort to ban this practice.

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