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[Bharatvarsh]

some info for the progressives who are always busy insulting other Indian's and proclaiming that if not for half anglicised men like Mohan Roy we would all be under dark ages practicing sati:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Contrary to popular belief, Raja Ram Mohan Roy was not the first to
have it abolished through Bentick. Long before that, the Peshwas had
abolished Sati. The kings of Tanjore had. Do you know how they did
that? By going through our scriptures and conclusively proving that
sati had no support in them. In fact, the scriptures had prescribed
the duties of a widow, thus negating sati. For some details see the
section "Sati" in http://www.bharatvani.org/EarlyIndia.html Roy just
re-invented the wheel, often plagiarising the old arguments, and got
a British act enacted.

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In addition to this there was a ban on Sati under Akbar.

So it's time these progressive chauvinists learnt a little history about the rest of the "backward" India and spare us their progressive nonsense.