GRETNA GREEN OF INDIA
CHILD MARRIAGES IN FRENCH TERRITORY
SIXTY IN TWO DAYS
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)
(Received Ist September, 10.35 a.m.) CALCUTTA, 31st August. Yanam, a small town in Pondichery, which is French territory, has become the Gretna Green of India. Since the passing of the Sarada Act, which forbids child marriages in India, parents, whose anxiety to get their girls married begins at their birth, undertake a pilgrimage to Yanam, where by payment of 16 rupees to the French Government child marriages are performed. Yanam claims sixty marriages in the past two days,' the brides being any age from fifteen years down to five. When the brides are very young they are given candy to keep them quiet during the ceremony.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 1 September 1934, Page 7
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124GRETNA GREEN OF INDIA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 1 September 1934, Page 7
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