WEDDING STOPPED
AY DM EX BAR. ROaD CALCUTTA, March * 31— Twelve Hindu women, discarding their veils, marched out of their zenanas (women’s apartments) to-day and stopped the marriage of a wealthy merchant of Nalian, in the Punjab. They cried ‘"Down with polygamy,” as the bridal procession left for the ceremony. The groom said lie was determined to go on with tlio wedding. The protesting women, joined byothers, sat down and barricaded the street.
Then the bride said she would not marry the merchant. The women cheered as she went back home.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 37, 27 May 1938, Page 3
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91WEDDING STOPPED Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 37, 27 May 1938, Page 3
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