Abstract

The objective of the study is to investigate the efforts of William Lord Bentick as a British governor-general and Raja Ram Mohan Roy as a modern reformer against sati during the 19^th century. Ram Mohan Roy take a step in Barhamo samaj and William Bentick present the case in Nizam-e-Adalt against sati removal in the society that imposed the law in 1829. In past practices seen by the Greek traveler, ibn-Battuta, Al-Bruni. Different religious writing in the Hindu religion is present in a diverse manner. This practice reached its peak between the 18^th to 19^th centuries in many Indian regions. Raja Ram Mohan Roy's movement and William Bentick's law as primary and secondary sources explain the reasons and reality of sati in society. This article finds out the problems of backward, conservative and superstitious thoughts of people and somewhere women in-laws take this step to escape the division of property and another side to grasp the attention of the public as a goddess.