Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c11.s3.4

c11.s3.4

Anti-*satī* movement was already getting momentum. when Rammohun Roy took up its cause. In fact, before Roy brought out his first tract against the practice of *satī* in 1818, Mrityunjaya Vidyalankar had already recorded his views on *satī* in his official capacity as a *paṇḍit* in the Supreme Court. He had “anticipated most of the arguments later advanced by Raja Rammohun Roy”.²⁸