CHILD MARRIAGES IN INDIA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1939, 5 September 1889, Page 4

CHILD MARRIAGES IN INDIA.

I Rnkmabai, the young lady whose marriage case-created such a sensation in India and at home two years ago, has just arrived in London, It will be remembered that, having been formally married when an infant, she refused when of full age to live with her husband, and was ordered by the Indian Courts to do go, She defended herself with great skill and pathos in the Indian press, and even wrote a long’letter on the subject through a philanthropic London lady to the British press. Her position was that she was an infant in fact as well as in law—l believe, says a London correspondent, she was six years of age—when her parents consented to the union, that she had gone on educating herself, while her husband and his family had gone do vn in the social scale, until now associaton with him was repugnant 10 her. More than once she spoke of him as “ a boor.” But the Courts were all against her. She held out manfully, if I may use that term, and finally her husband settled the question by marrying some one else and divorcing her. She has now come to this country to study at the London Medical School for Women, the who's of the heavy cos's being defrayed by English ladies who sympathised with her. One, the wife of a well-known M.P., pays all expenses to the end of the first year, and (he remainder has been subscribed by others. She intends to work between this and October for the entrance examination, and then to begin tbe course at the college, which extends over four years.