INFANT MARRIAGES IN INDIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1728, 30 December 1887, Page 2

INFANT MARRIAGES IN INDIA

We commend to Professor Max Muller another Infant marriage" case which the 11 Indian Spectator" (a well-knowu native journal rightly says is worse than that of Eukhlnabhi. A little Indian girl, whoße parents died during the Bambay famine of 1876-7, was at that time placed m an orphanage, and subsequently sent to the Poona Training College, to be qualified for the office of schoolmistress. AJter she was admitted into the college it was discovered that when an infant she had been married to her maternal uncle. The girl, it appears, had no renoileotlon of the ceremony, and only knew that she was married beoause she had heard her parents talk about it. Nevertheless, bofore she oouhj be trained as a schoolmistress, the consent of the man — who iB poor, Illiterate and already married — had to be obtained, and when Bhe has completed ber education she will ba in hia power unless indeed sooiety or the Government should Interfore. Mr Malabari, editor of the •' Indian Spectator," Is willing to. pay the husband a few hundred rupees if he will consent to release the girl from the contract which has been made m her name, but clearly this is a caao m whioh relief should be fouud for the victim of a oruel custom by j more satisfactory means thau the payment of a bribe. — Exchange. I

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