CHILD MARRIAGES
PROHIBITION IN INDIA PROTEST BY MOHAMMEDANS Press Ass'icivlicn —By Telegraph —Copyright. DELHI, November 29. (Received November 30, at 9.45 a.m.) Thousands of Mohammedans in India to-day observed Hartal (Day of Mourning), and as a protest against the passing of the Child Marriage Bill, which prohibits marriages of Indian girls under fourteen. Previously there was no limit, and it was quite common to see marriages of girls of ten veal’s of age, Appeals to ts>e Viceroy to prevent the Bill becoming law in April next, on the ground that the measure would interfere with the rights of Moslems, and the basis of the Islamic law, proved fruitless.
Mohammedan shops closed in ' the chief Indiaiv cities, and in Calcutta Europeans have difficulty fn securing food supplies.
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Evening Star, Issue 20346, 30 November 1929, Page 15
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126CHILD MARRIAGES Evening Star, Issue 20346, 30 November 1929, Page 15
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