GRETNA GREEN OF INDIA
SCENE OF MANY CHILD MARRIAGES CANDY KEEPS YOUNG ONES QUIET. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Calcutta, August 31. Yanam, a small town in Pondicherry, which is in French territory, has become the Gretna Green of India. Since the passing of the Act which forbids child marriages in India, parents whose anxiety to get their girls married begins at their birth, undertake pilgrimages to Yanam, where by the payment of 16 rupees to the French Government child marriages are performed. Yanam claims 60 marriages in the past two days, the brides being any age from 15 down to five. When the brides are very young they are given candy to keep them quiet during the ceremony.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1934, Page 5
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