Explanation: The Brahmo Samaj had the issue of widow remarriage high on its agenda and did much to popularise it.

• But it was mainly due to the efforts of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820-91), the principal of Sanskrit College, Calcutta, that the Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act, 1856, was passed.
• Vishnu Shastri Pandit founded the Widow Remarriage Association in the 1850s.

Source: Spectrum Modern India