Reprint. Originally published: Calcutta : City Book Society, 1904.
Introduction: social reform on shastric lines -- Social reform -- Elevation of the working classes -- Recent developments of the widow movement -- Sasipada Banurji and Indian widows -- The Barahanagar Widows' Home -- Temperance work, past and present -- Social reform and personal religion -- Sasipada Banurji and the Sadharma Dharma Sabha -- Female education -- The widow-marriage movement