Lord William Bentinck
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It enabled Lord William Bentinck to express the hope to his Council that 'they will partake in the perfect confidence which it has given me of the expediency and safety of the abolition. ' The discussion of the matter in Council did not take long, and one month after Lord William Bentinck s Minute there appeared in the Calcutta Government Gazette. Of December 7, 1829, the Regulation, known as No. XVII, and dated December 4, 1829, 'declaring the practice of sati, or of burning or burying alive t...he widows of Hindus, illegal and punishable by the Criminal Courts. ' The Regulation went on to state that -the practice of sati is 'revolting to the feelings of human nature, ' and ' nowhere enjoined by the religion of the people as an imperative duty. ' It then summarises the previous efforts to deal with the evil, all of which had been barren of result, until at last the Government had been forced to come to the SAT/ MADE A CRIME 91 conclusion that there was no remedy left ' without abolishing the practice altogether.
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It enabled Lord William Bentinck to express the hope to his Council that 'they will partake in the perfect confidence which it has given me of the expediency and safety of the abolition. ' The discussion of the matter in Council did not take long, and one month after Lord William Bentinck s Minute there appeared in the Calcutta Government Gazette. Of December 7, 1829, the Regulation, known as No. XVII, and dated December 4, 1829, 'declaring the practice of sati, or of burning or burying alive t...he widows of Hindus, illegal and punishable by the Criminal Courts. ' The Regulation went on to state that -the practice of sati is 'revolting to the feelings of human nature, ' and ' nowhere enjoined by the religion of the people as an imperative duty. ' It then summarises the previous efforts to deal with the evil, all of which had been barren of result, until at last the Government had been forced to come to the SAT/ MADE A CRIME 91 conclusion that there was no remedy left ' without abolishing the practice altogether.
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