MARRIAGE OF A HINDU WIDOW.
There is a great excitement among the Bholias, a lich and important section of Western India, owing to the occurrence of the first widow marriage in their caste. The lady is 27 years old, and has been a widow since the age of 10. She and her husband are both Bhotias, and became acquainted in the native State of Kutc.h, the headquarters of the caste, and knowing their marriage to be impossible there, they eloped to Bombay, where the Bhotias are also very strong, and where the ceremony was celebrated under the auspices of the Widows’ Re-marriage Association. A small band of native reformers approve of the marriage, but a feeling of strong indignation has arisen among a great majority of .the caste. The only Bhotia who attended the marriage has been excommunicated, and the lady’s relatives are trying to have the bride and bridegroom arrested and sent to Kuteli, where they propose dealing with them for an offence against the caste rules.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2626, 20 August 1881, Page 3
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168MARRIAGE OF A HINDU WIDOW. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2626, 20 August 1881, Page 3
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