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The Legal Age lof Marriage in.
15.The Cabinet took note of a Memorandum circu-
lated by the Secretary of State for India (Paper
C.P.-243 (28)) covering a speech delivered in the
Madras Legislative Council on the 27th March by
Dr. (Mrs) S.M.Reddi in support of a Motion to raise
the legal age for marriage of boys and girls to
21 and 16 years respectively. The Secretary of
State commented in his Memorandum that this speech
gave authoritative support to many of the statements
in Miss Mayo's book "Mother India" which were most
hotly criticised, and reported that the Motion in
support of which Dr. Reddi spoke was carried in
the Madras Council and that the Government of India
had for some time been actively considering the
matter in consultation with the Provincial Govern-
ments and had just appointed a representative
Committee of men and women to advise them on the
best legislative course to adopt.
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