The Origin and Enactment of the Indian Age of Consent Bill, 1891

Bibliographic Data

ID3611253
AuthorsCharles H Heimsath (corresponding author)
Year1962
Volume21
Issue04
Pages491-504
Publication date1962-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021911800112653
OpenAlexW4237937990, W2122261328
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The Indian social reform movement in the nineteenth century, like the political reform movement, remained unorganized on an all-India basis until the 1880's. Local groups functioned throughout the country in many cases along similar lines, but without regular and specific knowledge of each other. Virtually the only effort for social reform well publicized throughout the country had been Vidyasagar's Widow Remarriage movement, which however was never nationally organized and which found local support only when a reformer felt inclined to press for it; the founder himself lost interest in the cause long before his death in 1891. Unlike the political reformers, the social reformers gave no evidence, so far as the present writer knows, of concern about the absence of a national organization to direct and stimulate their activities. If it had any strength, such an organization would, in fact, embarrass them into a unity of principles and methods for which, before 1880, they were quite unprepared

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Genealogy · Movement (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reform movement · Remarriage · Sociology · History · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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