Dharma Sabha was an organization formed in 1830 in Calcutta by Radhakanta Deb. The impetus of forming the organization came from a new law enacted by the colonial British rule which banned the practice of burning widows alive in the country; the focus of the new association was to repel the law which was seen as an intrusion by the British into the religious affairs of the indigenous people by some sections of the Hindu community. From Wikipedia
