INDIAN MARRIAGE CUSTOM
“BETTER THAN AMERICAN”
The Indian marriage custom of having the parents choose the bride and groom as “far superior to your American way of marrying for love” said Dr. M. A. Haque,. of Punjab, when interviewed by the representative of an American daily newspaper. Dr. Haque, who is an engineering student at the University of Utah, said he was confident the system followed in the Punjab tribal area was responsible for the low divorce rate. In his two-year term as administrator of the area, he said, not a single case of divorce, adultery, or venereal disease was brought to his attention. The area has a population of 2,500,000.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 69, 6 January 1947, Page 4
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111INDIAN MARRIAGE CUSTOM Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 69, 6 January 1947, Page 4
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