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The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 18 1945

1945

the sphere of Central and of Provincial politics to a conference which will discuss the formation of a new and—except for the Viceroy himself and the Commander-in-Chief who will retain the War portfolio—an Indianised Exective Council. [...] The Viceroy will nominate the members of the Executive Council but it will be on the basis of consultation with the country’s leaders and of equal representation of Caste Hindus and Muslims. [...] There was no question of cruelty in this ease but purely ineowatibility of temperament; and the decision of the Prophet is the earliest and the most authoritative prcedent on divorce on the ground of incompatibility of temperament. [...] The Hind law while allowing the husband the privilege of ited polygamy will deny the poor wife the barest consideration of humanity and will tie her down to impossible eonditions of life; and even to the cruelest Inieftaiul consigning her to life-long misery. [...] 'To that the obvious answer would be that she was not a free agent for under the Hindu law the marriage is not a contract as in Islam where the spouses freely enter into a contract but is a gift of the bride from her father to the groom.
law
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4
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 18 1945
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