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.
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.
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1319293235945107459
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.
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.
https://twitter.com/harshmadhusudan/status/1471535509956534273?s=20
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.
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/989838212662087680?s=20
Singapore is a city; it is irrelevant to India.
India has a largely agrarian population. Marriage age is already an area where the police state intrudes in rural and tribal life, "civilizing" them for their own good with top-down extortive laws.
India has a largely agrarian population. Marriage age is already an area where the police state intrudes in rural and tribal life, "civilizing" them for their own good with top-down extortive laws.
https://twitter.com/Karthik_Kankan/status/1471476921087135746?s=20
In most countries, children can marry younger with parental consent.
In India parents (and society) is deemed to be "backward" and in need of "fixing" by urban policy makers sitting in Delhi. Parents & children are deemed incapable of deciding.
Q: "why is this colonial?"😏
In India parents (and society) is deemed to be "backward" and in need of "fixing" by urban policy makers sitting in Delhi. Parents & children are deemed incapable of deciding.
Q: "why is this colonial?"😏
What is colonial, and patriarchal, is the relation and attitude that the State takes toward society and people.
When it frames laws completely out of touch with society, the implication is that society is wrong and needs to be "civilized." The State does not *represent* society.
When it frames laws completely out of touch with society, the implication is that society is wrong and needs to be "civilized." The State does not *represent* society.
The US was just an example because Indians are deluded that so-called "child marriage" (in reality teen marriage) represents Indian "backwardness." In fact, it is common the world over.
And this won't do anything against #LoveJihad. Likely make it worse.
And this won't do anything against #LoveJihad. Likely make it worse.
https://twitter.com/GanzyP/status/1471710174930825219?s=20
I'm not in favor of controlling how others live. Atomization by modern "liberalism" discards all relationships but State<=>Individual.
Dharmic society self-regulates without draconian laws. They should be for extreme cases, not contrary to mainstream.
Dharmic society self-regulates without draconian laws. They should be for extreme cases, not contrary to mainstream.
https://twitter.com/harshmadhusudan/status/1471675841327235075?s=20
Let's be clear.
1. Raising marriage age does not change the age of sex.
2. Consequently, raising marriage age, increases unmarried motherhood.
3. This is what the West is grappling is. This is what the State is pushing India towards.
brookings.edu/articles/new-m…
1. Raising marriage age does not change the age of sex.
2. Consequently, raising marriage age, increases unmarried motherhood.
3. This is what the West is grappling is. This is what the State is pushing India towards.
brookings.edu/articles/new-m…
This is the "advanced" model that "liberals" and "modern Hindutva" wants for India.
Proliferation of unmarried parenthood, which leaves women and children much *worse* off than if they were married earlier in a stable relationship.
Proliferation of unmarried parenthood, which leaves women and children much *worse* off than if they were married earlier in a stable relationship.
What @narendramodi govt is saying:
It is legal
1. To have sex at 18
2. To give birth to a child at 18
BUT
3. If you ask the father of the child to marry you, we'll throw you both in jail.
Aim is to "develop" like the West in unmarried teen mothers?
ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/popul…
It is legal
1. To have sex at 18
2. To give birth to a child at 18
BUT
3. If you ask the father of the child to marry you, we'll throw you both in jail.
Aim is to "develop" like the West in unmarried teen mothers?
ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/popul…
My article from 2020 on why raising the age of marriage is a bad idea; originally published in Manushi by @madhukishwar.
Pushing high age assumes a uniform society following only one "modern" model; and targets the diverse communities of India.
sankrant.org/2020/09/indias…
Pushing high age assumes a uniform society following only one "modern" model; and targets the diverse communities of India.
sankrant.org/2020/09/indias…
Wild fantasy that drives this decision-making. "Let them finish college."
India does not live in this one delusion of "modernity." Nor can it be pushed into it. The outcome will be more unwed mothers scraping by and being victimized, not "college."
India does not live in this one delusion of "modernity." Nor can it be pushed into it. The outcome will be more unwed mothers scraping by and being victimized, not "college."
https://twitter.com/RMan7137/status/1471756737975754755?s=20
1. Not everyone goes to college.
2. Not everyone is benefitted in going to college.
3. There is not ONE model of society; to be pushed by state diktat.
2. Not everyone is benefitted in going to college.
3. There is not ONE model of society; to be pushed by state diktat.
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1046512408997453825?s=20
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