Raja Ram Mohan Roy Criticized the practice of sati because :
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → He considered it to be inhuman
Option (2) He considered it to be inhuman — Correct. Rammohun Roy attacked the practice of sati on the basis of appeals to humanitarian and natural rights doctrines as well as the Hindu shastras. To burn a widow on her husband’s pyre was, to him, inhuman.
NCERT (2025-26): “5.3 Struggle for women’s equality and rights … A decade before establishing the Brahmo Samaj in 1828, Roy undertook the campaign against ‘sati’ which was the first women’s issue to receive public attention. Rammohun Roy’s ideas represented a curious mixture of Western rationality and an assertion of Indian traditionality. Both trends can be located in the overarching context of a response to colonialism. Rammohun thus attacked the practice of sati on the basis of both appeals to humanitarian and natural rights doctrines as well as Hindu shastras.” |