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Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight
Law and History Review ( IF 0.769 ) Pub Date : 2020-04-02 , DOI: 10.1017/s0738248020000024
Kanika Sharma

Married at the age of eleven, Rukhmabai refused to go and live with her husband who had filed a suit for restitution of conjugal rights against her in 1884. This paper analyses the transplantation of the notion of restitution of conjugal rights into Hindu personal law in India at a time when child marriage was rife and there was no minimum age of marriage. Within this context Rukhmabai's case symbolises an important interjection in its attempt to posit lack of consent to an infant marriage as a defence against suits for restitution of conjugal rights. This marked a shift from female consent being understood as a question of physical maturity alone, to a claim of intelligent consent and the capacity to withhold such consent within an unconsummated marriage arranged in the girl's infancy. While analysing these notions of consent within colonial law the paper also closely scrutinises Rukhmabai's public writings to recover one of the earliest published Indian female views on the need for marital consent.

中文翻译:

拒绝同意印度殖民地童婚中的夫妻关系:Rukhmabai 的斗争

11 岁结婚后,Rukhmabai 拒绝与丈夫同住,丈夫于 1884 年对她提起诉讼,要求归还夫妻权利。本文分析了在印度将夫妻权利归还概念移植到印度教属人法中的情况。当时童婚盛行,没有最低结婚年龄。在这种背景下,Rukhmabai 的案件象征着一个重要的感叹,它试图将不同意婴儿婚姻作为对恢复婚姻权利诉讼的辩护。这标志着从女性同意被理解为仅是身体成熟问题的转变,转变为在女孩婴儿期安排的未完成婚姻中要求智能同意以及拒绝此类同意的能力。
更新日期:2020-04-02
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