 In 1882, Satyendranath was a district judge in Karwar, Karnataka.He served in the ICS for about thirty years and retired as Judge of Satara in Maharashtra in 1897.Ram Mohan Roy found women of Bengal "uneducated and illiterate, deprived of property rights, married before puberty, imprisoned in purdah, and murdered at widowhood by a barbaric custom of immolation known as "sati"."