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yes their was child marriage even when lord ram was married his age was 16 and sita age was around 13.

@Leo: What the TM means, is that the show, in her opinion, is stating a wrong historical fact that child marriages originated in Ancient India. Read the opening post again. And Turk/Mughals were Muslims. So there's nothing wrong with what she stated.

well during bc era the girl's average marrital age was 16 in india...in the first millenium the average age decreased to 14..after islamic invasion it decreased to 12 and then it continued to decrease
but there are some instances of child marriage found in ancient texts..even in some version of ramayana sita got married in the age of six..but it was not the general picture ..just some exceptions...
and these are historical facts that whenever someone attacked on other country they targeted the girl's honor...even there are several instances when a hindu king attacked another hindu kingdom they destroyed the temple and soldiers made loot and plunder and raped women...(example chola attack on chalukya dynasty..(history of south india by nilkantha sastri)

but as islam was complete different culture so when islamic era started hindu society was bound to be more conservative to save them from the touch of invaders

Originally posted by: sayali_babes

@Leo: What the TM means, is that the show, in her opinion, is stating a wrong historical fact that child marriages originated in Ancient India. Read the opening post again. And Turk/Mughals were Muslims. So there's nothing wrong with what she stated.

Originally posted by: sayali_babes

@Leo: What the TM means, is that the show, in her opinion, is stating a wrong historical fact that child marriages originated in Ancient India. Read the opening post again. And Turk/Mughals were Muslims. So there's nothing wrong with what she stated.

I am a historian and have far better information on this. I totally reject your ideas of muslim invasions being responsible for it. Invasions and far more destructive ones have occured world over, but they never led to child marriages. (for example Mongol invasion of west Asia). In fact invasions leading to changes in the society? When? where? Warfare is something common to world societies.The origin of such ideas have to be traced in Indian society itself. In fact many of the dharmasutras (600 bce to 300 bce, that is just after vedc age, age of Buddha ) proclaim that the girl should be married of before she attains puberty. In fact Baudhayana dharmasutra proclaims that a father should marry off his daughter to a man devoid of good qualities than just keep her at home after she attains puberty!I cannot give a complete explaination for this. It is still a matter of lot debate and research! And i will have to go in the topics of caste, woman subjugation, etc. These are very big topics and can't be detailed here. But I can consider the caste sysytem, the urge to maintain it to be more responsible for it, than muslim invasions. Think of love marriages that are occuring today and are weaking caste.

we are responsible for our own actions and we cannot blame others for our actions as someone rightly said its like gauri blaming anandi.

My 2 cents.

All religion and culture even the white men had child marriage in its history, but then it was not called child marriage. It was just called "marriage".
Girls in the olden day knew responsibilities early. they knew what marriage meant at a very young age because there was a clear division of labour between a man and woman. the education at their time means learning sexual activities, chores, dancing, music...etc. they had no school . We should not judge their decision of marriage their children early because it was the right thing to do in their era...we will never understand their era even if we try.

My grandma married at 14 and she is African. it was the right thing to do at that time. no body is guilty...cos it was not a sin or crime back in her day.
in the old indian culture, forced marriage was not practiced, but they married early. but it was not a crime and it was not against their norms.
Now that education is here, people understand the illness in child marriage both in mental and health ways , then the world changed from that era. Protection for women and children's life took over our era and made child marriage wrong and agianst the law in all most every country in the world.

The good things about the hindus, which can also go wrong is that their culture is engraved in their hearts that its almost impossible to take it away from them, and the early marriage is one of it. While some trades are moving with time. hindus and many other culture are finding it hard to change those old tradition that they so much believe in. the the government is doing a great job to help fight against it.

I stick with this show not because they have better actors, or the hottest actors, but because of the concept, the story line, they work alot with the right information, and best of all my Hot Shiv!!!!!!!!

I think the term "Muslim Invasion" was taken wrongly. Nobody stated that Muslims STARTED IT. It was said that Hindu Orthodox customs, including child marriage, became more rigid owing to the threat to their religion from Muslims. There's a difference.