Throughout India, recently thousands of little girls, from two to ten years of age, have been hurriedly married, a majority of them to full-grown men, in time to escape provisions of a childmarriage law just promulgated throughout all British-India. No. girl under fourteen, no boy under eighteen, may be legally married in British-India, and there is deep resentment on religous grounds. The Hindu believes that a horrible destiny awaits the female child dying unmarried, even through no fault of her own. *•
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20021, 1 September 1930, Page 13
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