A PALPABLE PEEP INTO THE CHILD MARRIAGES OF INDIA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO TRAVANCORE
Abstract
Child marriage can be considered as the most important issue children face even now, especially in India. In the past, it was so much that it affected the life of young children, leading the girls to be widows and to early motherhood. The colonial government had introduced various social legislations for the benefit of Indians. They targeted child marriage and introduced various laws to suppress it and one among them was the Sarada Act of 1929, which can be considered as a culmination of all. It had its repercussions in almost all the parts of India including Travancore. Though Travancore, the princely state in the southern most part of India was not notorious for child marriage, there were occurrences. The present paper tries to assess the institution of child marriage in India, its causes and various social legislations to curb it including the Sarada Act of 1929 and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of Travancore of 1941 in detail.
Keyword : Child, Sarada Act, Child Marriage Restraint Act of Travancore
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