Originally posted by: sashashyam
My dear Harry,
The widow remarriage issue was there only for non-Muslims, which in practice meant mostly for the Hindus. There was never anything against Muslim widows remarrying, so there was nothing special in what Jalal did for Bakshi Banu and Salima Begum.
So what he is saying now is for those for whom widow remarriage is taboo and that is revolutionary. In fact, for any such reform to succeed,the social climate has to be right. So Akbar's reform on widow remarriage for Hindus faded away after him and had to be revived by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and other social activists in the 19th century.
Shyamala Aunty
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