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Women, Caste, and Reform Movements by Gauri Mittal is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Raja Rammohun Roy was an Indian reformer in the early 19th century who founded the Brahmo Sabha to promote social reform. He advocated for greater rights for women, including access to education and freedom from domestic confinement. Roy particularly campaigned against the practice of sati and tried to show through his writings that widow burning had no basis in ancient texts. Over the 19th and 20th centuries, norms around gender, caste, and widowhood began to change due to the work of reformers like Roy an

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Gauri Mittal

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