Tammohun Roy was particularly moved by the problems widows faced in their lives he began a campaign against the practice of sati. Tammohun Roy was well versed in Sanskrit parsian and several other Indian and European languages he tried to show through his writings that the practice of widow burning had no sanction in ancient texts. By the early nineteenth century as you have read in chapter 7many British officers had also begun to criticise Indian traditional and customs they were therefore more that willing to listen to Tammohun.