Consider facts relating to Social Institutions and Reforms.

I. December 4, 1829 declaring the practice of Sati or burning or burying alive the widows of Hindu illegal and punishable by criminal courts.

II. The raising of the age of marriage among the educated classes affective largely due to education, economic pressures, and the break-up of the joint family system.

III. The British Government followed the policy of non-intervention in regard to caste and family and changes that have marked these institutions are attributed for the most part not to any Governmental action but factors of a sociological nature.