CHILD MARRIAGES.
BRITISH BAN RESISTED HINDU TAX ON PARENTS. (United Press. Association—Copyright) LONDON, March S. The Bombay correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says that the imposition of a tax on all. “spinsters’'’'over eleven years of age Is the latest proposal of the orthodox Hindus at Alnnedabad in order to defeat the British Government’s Sarda Act, which forbids girls marrying under the age of fourteen. The orthodox Hindus insist that it is essential according to Hinduism for marriage at the earliest ages. They accordingly are, trying to enforce the marriages of girls between the ages of nine and eleven by penalising their parents to the extent of one rupee for ■every month that the daughter is unmarried after eleven years.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 127, 11 March 1935, Page 5
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