CHILD MARRIAGES
EVIL RESULTS IN INDIA MORTALITY AMONG INFANTS CALCUTTA. Feb. 1 " One-third of the children of Indians di' 3 before they are 12 months old," sa,id Dr. Hari Singh Gour, a well-known sooial reformer and authority on Hindu la v. Dr. Gour spoke at a conference in Dislhi in support of his bill before tho Central Legislature, which seeks to raise the marriage ago of Hindu girls from IC-I to 16 years. Denouncing the Hindu custom of miirrying girls and boys while they are ini.'ants, Dr. Gour said drastic reform Wilis needed if Hindu society wished to survive. An actuarial estimate of the extent of an. Indian's life was 30 years against £>s for a European.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 11
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117CHILD MARRIAGES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 11
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