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Mrs Margaret E. Cousins has sent me notes of tragic case that appears to have just occurred in Madras and has arisen out appears to have just occurred in Madras and has arisen out of a child marriage, the girl being 13 years and the husband 26. Hardly had the pair lived together for 13 days when the girl died of burning. the jury have found that she committed suicide owning to the unbearable and inhuman solicitations of the so called husband. The dying deposition of the girl would go to show that the husband had set fire to her clothes. Passion knows no prudence, no pity. But how the girl died is beside the point.the indisputable facts are: 1.That the girl was married when she was only 13. 2.That she had no sexual desire inasmuch as she resisted the advances of the husband. 3.That the husband did make cruel advances, 4.And that she is no more. it is irreligion, not religion, to give religious sanction to a brutal custom. A girl is no more fit to bear children before 18 years. This custom of child marriage is both a moral as well as physical evil.
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Gandhi, MK. WOMEN AND SOCIAL INJUSTICE. 4. AHMEDABAD: NAVJIVAN PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1958. 22-33. Print.
really very nice one.
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