Indian Infanticide: Its Origin, Progress, And Suppression
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Sapte of Goojrat, for these adjacent districts. Here the same plan which had succeeded so well at Goojranwalla and Rawul Pindee was tried, and with the same success ; the agreements entered into at Umritsur were presented for consideration, and were " immediately and cordially" adopted. At this meeting, and closely connected with the object of it, was presented.
a petition signed by the whole assembly, entreating re- dress from another evil which had grown up under our rule. Adultery had always... been regarded by the races of the Punjab with such abhorrence, that nothing short of the death or mutilation of the parties implicated would appease their revenge. Such retribution an injured husband did not scruple to exact under former rule; and he did so with impunity; the law, being too weak to * Selections from Punjab Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 171.
SUBSIDIARY DISTRICT MEETINGS. 169 punisla the crime itself, did not attempt to restrain the man who took the punishment into his own hands. Our rule had put a check to this indulgence in unlawful re- venge, but had not substituted any penalty for the crime adequate to its enormity in their eyes, or sufficient to deter others from committing it ; and therefore immo- rality among the women had greatly increased.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Sapte of Goojrat, for these adjacent districts. Here the same plan which had succeeded so well at Goojranwalla and Rawul Pindee was tried, and with the same success ; the agreements entered into at Umritsur were presented for consideration, and were " immediately and cordially" adopted. At this meeting, and closely connected with the object of it, was presented.
a petition signed by the whole assembly, entreating re- dress from another evil which had grown up under our rule. Adultery had always... been regarded by the races of the Punjab with such abhorrence, that nothing short of the death or mutilation of the parties implicated would appease their revenge. Such retribution an injured husband did not scruple to exact under former rule; and he did so with impunity; the law, being too weak to * Selections from Punjab Correspondence, vol. ii. p. 171.
SUBSIDIARY DISTRICT MEETINGS. 169 punisla the crime itself, did not attempt to restrain the man who took the punishment into his own hands. Our rule had put a check to this indulgence in unlawful re- venge, but had not substituted any penalty for the crime adequate to its enormity in their eyes, or sufficient to deter others from committing it ; and therefore immo- rality among the women had greatly increased.
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