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...best arguments for emancipating women from the archaic system, said handsome Prime Minister Nehru, are Indian women themselves. "I am proud of their beauty, grace, charm, modesty, shyness, intelligence and spirit of sacrifice," he said. And, though he did not mention his sister (India's High Commissioner in London) by name, he went on: "Every woman who has been sent abroad has brought credit to India." India's half-dozen women M.P.s cheered...
What Is Sacrament? Not to be fobbed off by such compliments to womanhood, retired High Court Judge N. C. Chatterjee argued that the old Hindu marriage was sacramental and therefore "sacrosanct and inviolable." Countered Nehru: "What is sacrament? Is it sacrament for man and wife to hate each other and beat each other, making life hell for each other, and continue throughout life in that condition...
Despite the protests of religious conservatives, Nehru had the votes, and the bill passed. One other important clause in the act was designed to stop India's ancient custom of child marriages. It fixes new legal marrying ages: boys 18, girls...
...Untouchability' is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden," the Indian constitution promised in November 1949. But through much of Nehru's emergent country, the 50-million Hindu untouchables continued to live their menial lives, scorned and ignored by caste-conscious Hindus. Last week Nehru introduced, and the lower House of the People quickly passed, India's first bill to make discrimination against untouchables an offense-punishable with a six-month jail term and a fine of 500 rupees ($105). Henceforth, untouchables will have the law on their side in demanding undisturbed access to shops...
...Nehru's modern India would like to change Shakta customs. The government has sent community development officers into the villages to instruct the Shaktas in modern farming and hygiene and to teach them to read and write. The government men noted that the ancient stone pillars embedded in stone rings -phallic symbols worshiped by the Shaktas-were gathering moss in some villages, and the officials concluded confidently that the old practices were...