Tell us about the Widow Remarriage Association.

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Widow Remarriage Association

Widow Remarriage Association was founded by Vishnu Shastri Pandit in 1850s.
Karsondas Mulji who started the Satya Prakash in Gujarati in 1852 to advocate widow remarriage.
D.K. Karve dedicated his life to the upliftment of Hindu widows and became the secretary of the Widow Remarriage Association. He opened a widows’ home in Poona to give the high caste widows an interest in life by providing them with facilities for vocational training.