I came across an intersting tidbit while browsing Jet's inflight magazine on my way back from Trivendrum. Raja Rammohan Roy (God! How many years has it been since I last read about this gentleman!) - who we women of India should be eternally grateful to - died in Bristol, UK and his statue is erected there. He had gone there to ensure that Lord Bentick's regulation banning the practice of Sati was not overturned. Tragically, he contracted Meningitis there and died of it. :-(