Question

Keshwapan was the practice of ______.

• A. forcing widowed women to jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband.
• B. allowing men to marry multiple women.
  
• C. forcing women below the age of 14 to get married.
• D. removing all the hair from the heads of widowed women.

Answer 1

The correct option is D removing all the hair from the heads of widowed women.

Several customs like child marriage, polygamy, keshwapan,and sati made women's lives miserable. Keshwapan was the practice of removing all hair from the heads of widows.