Lectures On India Also Descriptions of Remarkable Customs And Personages in O
Lectures On India Also Descriptions of Remarkable Customs And Personages in O
Caleb Wright
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The missionary kindly inquired the cause of his sadness. His friend, with most lugubrious face, replied, "I have heard that your new-born infant is a daughter, and I have come to condole with you, on your hard fate. " So little valued is the life of female infants, within the domains of Paganism, that great numbers are put to death, solely to avoid the trouble and expense of feeding and clothing them. The singular custom formerly prevailed in the northern part of Hindustan, whenever a female ch...ild was born, of carrying her to the market-place, and there, holding up the child in one hand, and a knife in the other, proclaiming, that if any person wanted to rear her for a wife, they might then take her; if none appeared to accept of her, she was immediately destroyed. The consequence of this course, was, that the men of the tribe became much more numerous than the women; and hence arose the custom of appropriating several husbands to one wife, — a custom that still prevails in some of the southern as well as the northern tribes of Hindustan.
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