'IN COMMON PRACTICE1

close analysis. Owing to the custom of infmt and
child marriage among Hindus and Jains, the fuj"
ures contain a large number of unions which arc
little more than irrevocable betrothals. A Himlu
girl-wife, as a rule, returns after the wedding crrr-
mony to her parents' house and lives theft* until
she reaches puberty, when another ceremony is
performed and she goes to her husband and enters
upon the real duties of wifehood. At the yotw
ages, therefore, the wives are not wives at all
practical purposes, though their future liven
committed; ,

At this point both end their Census quotation,
stituting a period for the original's semicolon,
remainder of the sentence, which they omitted^ i'

and from the eugenic point of view what i* «f»
jectionable is not infant marriage itself but ilir
extremely early age at which effective union
place, girls becoming mothers before they arc lit
for the condition of motherhood, with Herimm con-
sequences both to themselves and to the children
whom they produce.1

Thus if Mr, Savel Zimand and Mr, Dhxn (**i|mi
Mukeqi instead of printing only a part of the wwcnrr
kd printed the whole of it, they would have Irft iif mn
their reader's mind an impression entirely
from the one they actually effected.

Few Indians admit grounds for objection to ctiiI4
mamage, if it can be contended that the
implies only betrothal, the practice being both «aii*
1 Census of India, xpai, Vol. I, p, 15*,
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