Who stopped "sathi" in India?,?

Question

which was the hindu law to burn the widow with her husband (The Burning and burden alive)

Answer 1

i think it is called the law and your conscience

A few rulers of India like the Mughals, tried to ban this custom.

Italian Traveler Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652) has documented the Sati ritual that he witnessed in the town of Ikkeri in November of 1623.

Colonel William. H. Sleeman (1809 - 1856 A.D.) served as the collector of  Jabalpur.

In general, before this custom was outlawed in 1829, there were a few hundred officially recorded incidences each year.

The efforts of Raja Rammohan Roy and other Hindu reformers greatly impacted the movement to outlaw this practice.

Even after the custom was outlawed, this custom did not vanish completely. It took few decades before this custom almost vanished

British and other European territories

By the end of the 18th century, the practice had been banned in territories held by some European powers. The Portuguese banned the practice in Goa by about 1515, though it is not believed to have been especially prevalent there.[43][44] The Dutch and the French had also banned it in Chinsurah and Pondicherry. The British who by then ruled much of the subcontinent, and the Danes, who held the small territories of Tranquebar and Serampore, permitted it into the 19th century.

Attempts to limit or ban the practice had been made by individual British officers in the 18th century, but without the backing of the British East India Company. The first formal British ban was in 1798, in the city of Calcutta only. The practice continued in surrounding regions. Toward the end of the 18th century, the evangelical church in Britain, and its members in India, started campaigns against sati. Leaders of these included William Carey and William Wilberforce, and both appeared to be motivated partly by a desire to convert Indians to Christianity. These movements put pressure on the company to ban the act, and the Bengal Presidency started collecting figures on the practice in 1813.

From about 1812, the Bengali reformer Raja Rammohan Roy started his own campaign against the practice. He was motivated by the experience of seeing his own sister-in-law commit sati. Among his actions, he visited Calcutta cremation grounds to persuade widows not to so die, formed watch groups to do the same, and wrote and disseminated articles to show that it was not required by scripture.

On 4 December 1829, the practice was formally banned in the Bengal Presidency lands, by the then governor, Lord William Bentinck. The ban was challenged in the courts, and the matter went to the Privy Council in London, but was upheld in 1832. Other company territories also banned it shortly after. Although the original ban in Bengal was fairly uncompromising, later in the century British laws include provisions that provided mitigation for murder when "the person whose death is caused, being above the age of 18 years, suffers death or takes the risk of death with his own consent".[45]

Sati remained legal in some princely states for a time after it had been abolished in lands under British control. The last such state to permit it, Jaipur, banned the practice in 1846.

[edit] Modern times

A shrine to wives of the Maharajas of Jodhpur that have committed sati. The palmprints are typical.

A shrine to wives of the Maharajas of Jodhpur that have committed sati. The palmprints are typical.

Following outcries after each instance, there have been various fresh measures passed against the practice, which now effectively make it illegal to be a bystander at an event of sati. The law now makes no distinction between passive observers to the act, and active promoters of the event; all are supposed to be held equally culpable. Other measures include efforts to stop the 'glorification' of the dead women. Glorification includes the erection of shrines to the dead, the encouragement of pilgrimages to the site of the pyre, and the derivation of any income from such sites and pilgrims.

Following the outcry after the Sati of Roop Kanwar,[46] the Indian Government enacted the Rajasthan Sati Prevention Ordinance, 1987 on October 1, 1987[47] and later passed the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, 1987.[6]

The Prevention of Sati Act makes it illegal to abet, glorify or attempt to commit Sati. Abetment of Sati, including coercing or forcing someone to commit Sati can be punished by Death Sentence or Life imprisonment, while glorifying Sati is punishable with 1-7 years in Prison.

However, enforcement of these measures is not always consistent.[48] Prohibitions of certain practices, such as worship at ancient shrines, is a matter of controversy[citation needed] The National Council for Women (NCW) has suggested amendments to the law to remove some of these flaws.

Answer 2

the main activist to stop sati was mr. raja ram mohan roi

british govt made law.