The strategy adopted by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar to challenge the social evil of banning widow remarriage was: (A) referring to Western ideas (B) looking for supportive superstitions (C) finding a verse or sentence in ancient texts to support his point. Choose the correct option:

Consider the statements (A) and (R): Assertion (A): Throughout the 19th century, most educated women were taught at home rather than being sent to schools. Reason (R): Most people in the 19th century feared that schools would take girls away from home and prevent them from doing domestic duties.

During the 19th-century debates on social reform, which of the following arguments was used by reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy against the practice of Sati?