The 1846 abolition in Jaipur was regarded by many British as a catalyst for the abolition cause within Rajputana; within 4 months after Jaipur's 1846 ban, 11 of the 18 independently governed states in Rajputana had followed Jaipur's example. One paper says that in the year 1846–1847 alone, 23 states in the whole of India (not just within Rajputana) had banned "sati". It was not until 1861 that "Sati" was legally banned in all the princely states of India, Mewar resisting for a long time before that time. The last legal case of "Sati" within a princely state dates from 1861 Udaipur the capital of Mewar, but as Anant S. Altekar shows, local opinion had then shifted strongly against the practice. The widows of Maharanna Sarup Singh declined to become "sati" upon his death, and the only one to follow him in death was a concubine. Later the same year, the general ban on "sati" was issued by a proclamation from Queen Victoria.