Your honourable court will be gratified by perceiving the great preponderance of opinions of the most intelligent and experienced of the civil and military officers consulted by the governor-general, in favour of the abolition of suttees, and of the perfect safety with which in their judgment the practice may be suppressed.
32.
His unwearied labour to promote the social, moral and physical condition of the people of India, his earnest endeavours to suppress idolatry and the rite of suttee and his constant zealous advocacy of whatever tended to advance the glory of God and the welfare of man live in the grateful remembrance of his countrymen.
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He also painted non-portraits, including " Dancing Girls ( Blacks ) " in 1772 and a suttee scene in 1776 entitled, " The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband ."
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His main reforms included the introduction of vaccination, the banning of self-sacrifice or " suttee ", the eradication of slavery, the improvement of the irrigation system, the development of coffee production as a cash crop, the construction of roads, bridges and port facilities for improved commerce and communication.
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While in England, having returned from Orissa, James Peggs published the book " India s Cries to British Humanity, Relative to Infanticide, British Connection with Idolatry, Ghau Murders, Suttee, Slavery, and Colonization in India " in 1832, when British parliament was reviewing the charter of the Company.
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Your honourable court will observe that the original draft of the regulation was considerably modified before its final enactment, and that it was deemed advisable, at the suggestion of the judges of the nizamat adalat, to omit the distinction originally made between misdemeanour and culpable homicide, in being accessory to a suttee, and also in the degree of interference to be exercised by the police-officers.
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"Suttee " ( 1928 ), on the outlawed practice of Sati, " The Life of Charles, Lord Metcalfe " ( 1937 ), his biography of the English administrator Charles Metcalfe and the plays " Atonement : A play of modern India " ( 1924 ) and " Elizabeth and Essex " ( 1943 ) are his other notable works.
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In conclusion we venture to express a confident expectation that under the blessing of divine providence the important measure which we have deemed it our duty to adopt will be efficacious in putting down the abhorrent practice of suttee, a consummation, we feel persuaded, not less anxiously desired by your honourable court than by every preceding government of India, although the state of the country was less favourable in former times than at present, for its full and complete execution.
39.
While the Government was flooded with petitions and memorials from native Christians, Hindu women, and missionaries, it is stated that nearly all the speakers in the Legislative Council referred to the facts presented in this memorial, which had great influence in bringing about the change of raising the age to 12 years ( not 14, as asked ), " possibly the most important step taken in the domestic and social life of the people since the abolishment of suttee, in 1829 ."
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The image ( " Burning a Hindoo widow " ), the first page of Pegg's compendium of sources and commentary on " Suttees " [ Sati ] in " India s Cries to British Humanity, Relative to Infanticide, British Connection with Idolatry, Ghau Murders, Suttee, Slavery, and Colonization in India ", was frequently reproduced again and again as ritual of sati, to influence Britons and whereby British parliament to garner support for enforcing prohibition of sati as a ladder for extending Charter extension for Company's reign and also Missionaries " Translational activism ".
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