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INDIA.
Attempt to Nullify the Sarda Act.
ASSENT OF THE VICEROY.
ago
of fourteen years ponal, irrespec- tive of whether consummation does or does not take place, renders its performance among Hindus com- pulsorily post-puberty.
Such marriages being strictly forbidden (na stated, above), the Act is a direct interference with obser- the religious beliefs and vances of the Hindus, and is a Two Bil, intended to. reform clear violation of the solemn Hindu marriage laws, are to be pledges of non-interference with introduced at the next session of religion made for over a hundred the Assembly by Raja Bahadur G. years. Krishnamachariar.
It is, indeed, a clear declaration The first Bill, for the introduction
on the part of the Legislature and of which the assent of the Viceroy the Government that the Hindu has been obtained, is entitled "The community is no longer free to act Child Marriage Restraint (Amend- up to its religious injunctions, ex- ment) Act, 1991."
capt under the risk of being im- The statement of objects and rea-prisoned, or deprived of its pro- sons appended to the Bill says: nerty..
The object of the Bill in to exempt The Legislative Assembly, com- Brahmins, Vaishyas, Sourashtras posed of members of different Sir Leonard Hill is applying the and other communities, in which creeds and faiths, and brought to- knowledge gained by experiments post-puberty marriage is forbidden gether for a purely secular pur in breathing pate oxygen to the by their religious usages or customs pose, was not competent to inter- problems of diving at great depths or both, from the operation of the fore with the personal law of one -a subject which greatly interests | Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, Bection of the community, where it the Deep Diving Committee of the and thus allay to some extent the is governed by religious injunc Admiralty.
strong feeling which the provisions tions and sanctions. of the Act have, admittedly, engen-
Age of Consent. dered in the country. Among these Indeed, the Age of Consent Com- communities what is generally re-mittee admitted, though in a halt- as marriage loaning manner, that the Legislative carded irrevocable betrothal with all the Assembly was not representative effects of a valid marriage.
enough to pass, an· Act of this nature, but felt Itself justified in upholding its competence on the ground that there was no alter- native, body.
found was
during Leonard's experiments that from one-third to one-fourth of the total nitrogen present in the body ap appears to be removed in the first five minutes of deep oxygen breathing, and this amount may be increased by exercise by a further 20 to 50 per cent.
The Garbhadhanam or consum- mation ceremony, which is per formed when the girl and the boy begin to live as man and wife, is a distinct samskara and it can only In this connection It is worthy be performed after the attainment of note that the minimum limit of of puberty by the girl, and never fourteen years was fixed in the before that. Even then the Aet, not out of regard to any: Smrithie and Grihiya Sutras lay necessity to prevent the physical down strict rules for its per- and moral deterioration of the
formance.
ac-
The poisonous effects of oxygen at excessive pressure has long been under investigation, and
con eideration is now being given to the use of air partially deprived of oxygen for supply to divers under the high pressures caused by great depths.
Hindu community, as was stated to Mountain Life.
The Shastras relating to mar-. be the object of the Bill, and for Preliminary experiments have riage definitely prohibit post- which by the way, a limit of even shown the possibility of exposing puberty marriage (betrothal) in eleven years was considered as a animals under these conditions, to the case of the dwijne, under sufficient mialmum, but as a price In Professor G. Elliot Smith's pressures equivalent to a diving department at University College, depth of 350 feet, and practical pain of severe persities which to purchase Mohammedan
could not be cured by any quiescence in their Inclusion with.... London, Dr. Matthew Young. is diving trials are being made.
explatory ceremonies. They fur- in the scope of the Bill. altitudes has ther provide that it is essential studying the structure of children's Life at high faces; and at the Great Ormond similarly been investigated by ex- that such marriage should, in the Street Hospital the relation be periments on mice, which showed case of girls, be performed be tween different physical types of that they cannot live healthily children and their liability to par after a month at an oxygen ténetontween the ages of eight and ten. ticular diseases.
corresponding to a 20,000 feet al- titude. Mice are more resistant to such changes than men, and the experiment strongly suggests a limit to passibilities of acclima tisation at the high levels already reached by man for short periode for purposes of exploration:
Noise and vibration are known to have serious effects upon the norvous system of the workers, and many investigations are now cez tred on this problem. At Cam bridge, the paychological effects upon workers, in various selected
Penal Provisions.
In order to further Interest farmers in growing better cereal seed, the field crop division of the Department of Agriculture has It is a well-known and admitted secured a list of reliable varieties fact that girls in North India at which are being sent upon appli- tain puberty between the ages of cation. This will be the last sea- twelve and thirteen, while in son to secure seed for sowing to Madras and Bengal it very often compete in the World's Grain Ex- occurs even one year earlier. Con-hibition to he held in Reglan in sequently, the provision in the Act 1932.