Against High-Caste Polygamy

Against High-Caste Polygamy offers a complete, annotated translation of Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar''s 1871 tract arguing against the practice of high-caste Kulin marriage in Bengal. Vidyasagar published this work fifteen years after passage of the Hindu Widow''s Remarriage Act, which owed so much to his earlier reform leadership. However, in the wake of the Rebellion of 1857 British and Indian attit...