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Raising #MarriageAge for girls to 21 in India, the highest in the world, is draconian interference in society pushed by colonized minds.

Some states in the US don't even have a minimum marriage age. Many have 14 or 16.

Colonial shame produces laws out of touch with reality.
What is colonial about it, he asks? 😆

Where in the shastras can you find such a law or need? Or in which indigenous culture prior to colonization, anywhere in the world?

This thinking comes from the civilizing mission. The State has to "fix" people.

The problem with many of the so-called "Hindutva" thinkers is that they have internalized colonial ideas but parrot them as necessary to be "modern" and "progressive." They share the contempt the Left has for native culture; just in a different flavor.

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