| Women’s Legislations | Description |
| Bengal regulations (1795 and 1804) | These declared infanticide illegal. It was followed by another act in 1870 that made it compulsory for parents to register birth of all babies. |
| Abolition of Sati (1829) | The practice was done away with under William Bentinck, because of the efforts of Raja Rammohun Roy. |
| Hindu Widow Remarriage Act (1856) | It was passed by the tremendous efforts of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and legalized marriage of Hindu widows. |
| Native Marriage Act (1872) | Prohibited child marriage. |
| Age of Consent Act (1891) | Forbade marriage of girls below 12 and Malabari took an active part in it. |
| Sarda Act (1930) | Pushed marriageable age to 18 for boys and 14 for girls. |
- Indian Women’s University, Bombay (1916): It was set up by D K Karve, who took up the women’s cause in Western India and he himself married a widow.
