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Detailed explanation-1: -Lord William Bentinck became the Governor-General of India in 1828. He helped Raja Rammohan Roy to suppress many prevalent social evils like Sati, polygamy, child marriage and female infanticide. Lord Bentinck passed the law banning Sati throughout the Company’s jurisdiction in British India.

Detailed explanation-2: -Raja Rammohan Roy And The Hindu Conservatives Raja Rammohan Roy is known as the pioneer of women’s rights in India, specifically because he came out in support of the abolition of Sati. Since 1818, Roy wrote in great detail about Sati and how he was pro-abolition.

Detailed explanation-3: -Raja Ram Mohan Roy was the social reformer, who started working for ban on sati. It was because of his efforts that, William Bentinck, the Governor-General of India, passed a law in 1829 making the practices of Sati illegal & punishable by law.

Detailed explanation-4: -In August 1828 Roy formed the Brahmo Samaj (Society of Brahma), a Hindu reformist sect that utilized Unitarian and other liberal Christian elements in its beliefs. The Brahmo Samaj was to play an important part, later in the century, as a Hindu movement of reform.