The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-02-20
OTHELlOs OF EMPIRE.
AnuIo-Indian Marriages and the Fate
Of the Wives.

OF LHc NIHCS.
A strong feeling IS growing among
the Angio-Indians and others having
intimate acquaintance with the
British Indian Empire that the time
has now arrived when the law should
step in and absolutely prohibit mar
riayes being contracted between Eng
lish women and the native races OF
India
That such marriages almost invarf-
ably end disastrously for the English
girl is only too well known by those
who have witnessed such matrimonial
tragedies; but it is alleged that the
a tendency to increase. is slowly but
practice. which unfortunately shows
surely helping onward a grave politi-
cal crisis. Students Of Indian poll
tics declare that these marriages are
breaking down the Old tradition by
which India has been held all these
years. viz. the superiority of the gov
erning race.
1HeIS nave lSSCNllS DCSu A0oAy
cases of marriages contracted by In
dian law students with English girls.
while studying in this country,
which have ended in the usual way
by the Hindu or Mohammedan return
ing to India when his studies are
completed. leaving his English wife
,y1
u!,ans of subsistence and also without
any means of enforcing her husband
10 maintain her.
\ we'll known barrister in The Tenn
o!;.. WHO has spent many years IN In
d;a and has had number Of cases
before him in connection with these
mi, ed marriages. declares that it is
im&"SSihlc for one Of them to turn
oul happily.
What usually occur i" he says. "is
that the girl is deserted when her
hr: band rc:urnS home. She cannot
Oh, lin a divorce IN England on ac-
co,.nt Of her hr:.haEd's domicile being
In India. Neither can she get the In
diar courts 20 release her. because
size comes under the Mohammedan
law. which does not recognize dl.
vorce. but does recognize polygamy,
so far as governs the right and obli-
cations of the marriages.
IF she is not deserted and returns
with her husband to India she may
possibly remain the only wife Of her
husband. or she may be one among
others. for po!ygary is legal and is
practised. But if she remains her
husbands sole wife her position is
impossible. for English people vii!
never associate with or even speak
to har. it being a recognized social
necessity that they should not 10 SO:
and she cannot possibly live under
The conditions Of. and with. indian
wives. Her position is therefore one
of complete loneliness and isolation.
The students who contract mar
riages with white women and desert
tha-n are usually men Of no standing
in India. although they often pose II
this country as princes or the sons
OF wealthy men. and when they return
home they tel of the .cheapnesS' OF
English girls WHO in India are not
even introduced to the natives. how
ever exalted their position. These
marriages are doing an incalcnlahle
amount of harm politically. apart from
the sorrow they bring unon girls who
are foolish enough to ally themselves
with men Of a black race"
The mixed marriage question is also
becoming a serious one in the East
End of London. In the neighborhood
OF the docks. where aliens mostly
settle. immigrants from all parts Of
the world intermarry. and there are
innnmerable cases Of English women
having Chinese. Japanese. Lascar and
African usbands.-London Daily
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