WOMEN IN NORTH INDIA.
In the northern, parts of India the women are said to be more backward in public life than is the case in the south. However, in some of the districts women are in the councils and on committees, and also on the university senate, besides being censors of picture' films, while one woman was on the travelling commission that moved about to get facts connected with raising the age of consent. Through feminist efforts, again, the remarriage of Hindu widows is being sanctioned, and the rigid rule of the mother-in-law put aside. One of the melanchofy features of the old-fashioned regime, when it still persists, is said to be the number of women who are serving long sentences fbr husband murder. Possibly in the the old days they could "get away" with this crime -(which Mencken has stated is commoner than is believed in all lands), but nowadays there is some system of detection, although the country is not advanced enough for the better laws that would remove temptation to destroy the man entitled to act tyrant.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 14
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