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100			_aGanachari, Aravind
245			_aInfanticide in colonial Western India: the Vijia Lakshmi case
260			_c2003
300			_ap.902-06.
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520			_aIndian social reformers had to campaign long and vigorously before the Age of Consent Act raising the marriageable age of girls was finally passed in 1891. The campaign had its beginnings in the controversy that followed the sentencing to life of Vijia Lakshmi, a young Hindu widow for the crime of infanticide in 1881. The case drew attention to the plight of young widows who were victims of infant marriages and enforced widowhood, as caste rules forbade widow remarriage. The Vijia Lakshmi case exposed not merely the ills of the social system but also the indifference and caution that underpinned the colonial judicial system. - Reproduced.
650			_aInfanticide
650			_aEarly childhood
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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999			_c55716 _d55716