Description
Behramji M. Malabari’s seminal work provides a comprehensive analysis of two deeply entrenched social evils in Indian society: infant marriage and enforced widowhood. Written during the colonial period, this non-fiction treatise documents the personal tragedies and systemic injustices faced by women trapped in these practices.
Through detailed case studies and social commentary, Malabari exposes how infant marriages stripped young girls of education, autonomy, and childhood, while enforced widowhood condemned women to lives of deprivation and social ostracism. The author advocates passionately for legislative reform and societal change to protect women’s rights and dignity.
This historically significant work remains relevant as a document of women’s struggle for liberation and serves as a foundational text in understanding 19th-century Indian social reform movements.
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