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RESULT OF LEGISLATION Thousands Of Child Unions In India EXHORBITANT DOWRIES.
(Received This Day, Noon.) DELIII, Nov. 27. Owing to the act forbidding child marriages, passed by the Legislative Assembly, not coming into operation till April, children are being married en masse in Bombay at present, 2000 being married at Surst alone. The boom has already led to the demand for exhorbitant dowries, and moneylenders at Gujarat are said to be doing a roaring business.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 255, 28 November 1929, Page 5
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83Mass Marriages Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 255, 28 November 1929, Page 5
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