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MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN INDIA.

REPORT OF AGE-OF-CONSENT COMMITTEE,

PUBLIC OPINION GROWING UNEASY.

EDUCATIVE VALUE OF NEW SOCIAL LEGISLATION.

The Committee was appointed by the Government of India, in June 1925, to examine the state of the

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Women Polles ?

for India is that women police Another revolutionary propotal should be employed, where avail- able, to did in the savestigation of sexual offences and in taking state-

Calcutta. The report of the Age | Afteenth year add, therefore, the herself, is inspired by the neces- of Consent Committee, just pub. percentage of girls who are marsity of finding a way of protecting lished, is an interesting and valu ried before the completion of the young girls from being exploited in Afteenth year will probably be prostitution but it is to say the able document. It contains a mass

Nearer 30 than 43 per cent.

least far in advance of public of information on marriage customs. In view of the fact that among opinion in this country. Only eer- and sentiment from all parts of non-Moslem there is an important tais American States treat women India,

section of orthodox opinion op- as intellectually immature up to posed to any change on the ground that late age. of Shastric (Scriptural) injune- tions, the Committee bas taken å Inw relating to the age of consent, courageous step in proposing fur and it examined a large number of ther legislation, although it is ad women witnesses, whose intimate mitted that past legislation on the knowledge of the conditions of mat subject has had little result. The ried life and maternity, entitled Committee seem to have beer im- then to speak with authority of pressed by the argument that social the feelings and views of, at least, legislation has an educative value the educated section of women in by setting up better idéals, and it the country. The Committee tour recommends meatures to give wide ed the whole country and their publicity to the Marriage and Con-respectable women of the locality 'findings' go to prove that public aent laws on an "educative" pro, opinion among the educated classes ¦ paganda. in India is beginning to stir un- easily and to realise how terribly the customs of early marriage and carly consummation are hampering and have always hampered, the task of building up healthy and happy races in this country.

Early Marriagas.

Protecting the Wives.

The Committee recommends legis lation beth for, the wife, and for the unmarried wonen. Taking as

ments of girls or women witnesses in case

of marital misbehaviour, and where women police are not available, any disinterested

and

or neighbourhood should be invited to be present while the statement of the girl concerned, or any female witness, is being taken by the police,

Nehru, the only Indian lady on th

In a separate note, Mrs. Brij La!

a fundamental principler that with. Committee, expressed the view out a marriage law firing an age that the general public in India closely related to the age of cop- are eager for legislation against sent the law of consent would not early marriage and its attendant The All-India figures of the 1921 be of much avail, they propose 14 evils, but she believes, that the Census show that over 209,000 girls as the minimum marriage age for punishment for marital misbe were married before they had girls, and 15 as the age of consent haviour. should not be, vindictive, reached five years of age; over within marriage, marital relations

"The very fact," she says, "that: 2,000,000 were married between the below that age to be an offence early consummation is. so.. widely. ages of five and ten; and 6,330,000 punishable by imprisonment, up to practised shows that it is not look- between the ages of ten and fifteen. to years if the wife la under 12ed upon by the generality of From these figures, the Committee and up to one year when she is people as anything reprehensibe or estimate that the total number of over 12.

criminal. The object of this law is Outside marriage, the age of con-

to save female childre from im. the completion of the 15th year is sent should be 18, the punishment. mature co-habition, 23,168,585 The total number of to be transportation for life or ten girls below, fifteen is. 30,613,380 and years' imprisonment when the girl the proportion of girls likely to be is under 16, and two years if she married below that age is 42 per is above 16, and is proved to have

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"That object can only be attain- ed by raising the moral sense of the people to the level of the law. Law after all is an organic growth and its effectiveness depends the relationship it bears to the be accepted as the age below which organization of and practices fol. an Indian woman cannot be re-lowed by the particular society it garded as competent "to dispose of governs."

This heroic suggestion, that 18

Diary of Coming Events,

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(November 5.)

Hockey: "Club

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Interport Cricket: Shanghai

Football:-Div. II: KOSB v. Malaya, HK.C.C. ground 10.30 Somersete; R.A.M.C.

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Ladies' Recreation | Club "At Home," Open Championship finals, 31.m

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Diocesan Boys' School

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Star Theatre: "Beyond the Sierras."

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World Theatre: "The Kid. is Clever."

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