Interesting references to the social conditions of India, particularly with regard to child life, were made by the Rev. A. IV. Brough, of Erode, India, in tho course of a sermon at an Auckland Congregational Church (states the “Herald”). Mr. Brough spoko of the various religions existing in India, with particular reference to tho marriage systems i prevailing under them. Women frequently married in their childhood, to said, and were’confined to iheik zenanas, or househ, from the day they married until death. There were in India 14,000,000 children between the ages of 12 and 13 years who were married. There were 10,800 widows who were not yet ono year old, while ywidows altogether numbered 20.000,000. These women underwent great suffering, and were deprived of the. privileges gran led to others of their sex They were forbidden to remarry, and were practically punished for the remainder of their lives.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 3, 28 September 1921, Page 5
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148Untitled Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 3, 28 September 1921, Page 5
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