Question

In at least one hundred words, explain how Gandhi establishes and develops his central ideas in his narrative on
marriage.​

Answer 1

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Even though Gandhiji had an early marriage, he was extremely critical of the phenomenon. In his autobiography he mentions how he blamed his father for marrying him off when he was just a teen. Gandhiji also strongly spoke against child marriage in various public platforms including newspapers, public meetings etc. Following are some of Gandhiji’s famous statements about early marriages. (Courtesy: here)

“Victims of child marriage, thousands of girls vanish from view at the early age of twelve. They change into house-wives!”

“Let us now consider the case of our girls who disappear, so to say, from view after marriage. They are not likely to return to our schools. Conscious of the unspeakable and unthinkable sin of the child-marriage of their daughters, their mothers cannot think of educating them or of otherwise making their dry life a cheerful one. The man who marries a young girl does not do so out of any altruistic motives, but through sheer lust.”

“A girl of fifteen can never be fit for delivery. A child born of such a girl is deficient in vitality. Our children are so sickly that bringing them up becomes a veritable job indeed, with the result that many children die within a year of their birth. Along with child-marriage, we should hold ill-matched unions responsible for the deaths of a great many infants. It is not at all surprising that the children of men who marry when they are no longer fit for marriage do not survive.”

Even though the age at marriage has shown a marginal increase across the country, early marriage trends showed a prevalence of 60% and above in the last National Family Health Survey conducted in 2005-06. So much of what Gandhiji had to say hold true even today. His observations about maternal and infant mortality rate can be seen even today. India has one of the worst maternal and infant mortality rates even in 2013. The annual State of the World’s Mothers report found that 56,000 mothers die annually while 309,000 babies die within the first 24 hours of being born in India every year. It is important to take a moment to reflect upon Gandhiji’s criticism about early marriages and join the fight against this social evil.

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