The Banning Of Sati And The Emergence Of European Liberalism In India

Palishhka Sonkiya and Diya Suriya

ABSTRACT

The research paper examines the extent to which the emergence of the ideas of liberalism contributed to the banning of Sati (self-immolation) among women in colonial India during the 19th century. This paper encompasses the arguments and debates between the side of the Indian liberals (like Raja Ram Mohan Roy) and the Western ideologies of the British and the beliefs and values of the Indian conservatives. This paper aims to show that liberal ideas of freedom and equal rationality played a significant role in several political and socio-cultural reforms in India. Although these liberal ideas were criticised by many, they not only led to the law banning the practice of Sati but also opened the gateway to many progressive social and political reforms in India during and after colonisation.

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