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Still quite widely practised in some rural parts of India, despite the fact that, since 1978, following the initial legislation of ‘The Child Marriage Restraint Act’ of 1929, the minimum legal age of marriage has been fixed at 21 for males, 18 for females.
From: child marriage in A Dictionary of Hinduism »
Subjects: Islam.
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