The High Caste Hindu Woman
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Marriage is the most expensive of all Hindu festivities and ceremonies.
The marriage of a girl of a high caste family in- volves an expenditure of two hundred dollars at the very least. Poverty in India is so great that not many fathers are able to incur this expense ; if there are more than two daughters in a family, his ruin is inevitable. For, it should be remem- bered, the bread-winner of the house in Hindu society not only has to feed his own wife and children, but also his parents, his br...others unable to work either through ignorance or idleness, their families and the nearest widowed relatives, all of whom very often depend upon one man for their support ; besides these, there are the family priests^ religious beggars and others^ who exgec£ Digitized by Google 50 The High-Caste Hindu Woman much from him. THus, fettered hand and foot by barbarously cruel customs which threaten to strip him of everything he has, starvation and death staring him in the face, the wretched father of many girls is itruly an object of pity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Marriage is the most expensive of all Hindu festivities and ceremonies.
The marriage of a girl of a high caste family in- volves an expenditure of two hundred dollars at the very least. Poverty in India is so great that not many fathers are able to incur this expense ; if there are more than two daughters in a family, his ruin is inevitable. For, it should be remem- bered, the bread-winner of the house in Hindu society not only has to feed his own wife and children, but also his parents, his br...others unable to work either through ignorance or idleness, their families and the nearest widowed relatives, all of whom very often depend upon one man for their support ; besides these, there are the family priests^ religious beggars and others^ who exgec£ Digitized by Google 50 The High-Caste Hindu Woman much from him. THus, fettered hand and foot by barbarously cruel customs which threaten to strip him of everything he has, starvation and death staring him in the face, the wretched father of many girls is itruly an object of pity.
What to read after The High Caste Hindu Woman?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati to read onlineMoreLess
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