Measures Adopted for the Suppression of Female Infanticide in the Province of Kattywar, &c |
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abolition Acting Political Agent adopted Agent in Kattywar appears attended Bhyad birth Bombay Castle born Brahmins British Government Captain censor census Chief of Rajkot Chief Secretary circumstances Colonel Walker committed crime of Infanticide custom dated daugh daughters death Dherol district Ditto ditto Ditto Drappa effect engagements Erskine favour feelings female children Female Infanticide Gondul Governor in Council Gutka Guzerat Hindoos Honorable the Governor humanity infant Infanticide Fund inquiry instances J. P. WILLOUGHBY Jam of Nowanuggur Jehajee Jetwa Jhalla Jhareja Chiefs Jhareja females Jhareja population Jhareja tribe Khureesra Kotra Kutch letter Lieutenant Colonel Mallia marriage married measures Mehta ment Moonshee Moorvee number of females observed offence paragraph practice of Infanticide present preserved proclamation proposed province punishment Raja Rajpoot receipt regard returns Right Honorable Satodur Secretary to Government Shravakas Signed Sirkar Soomra Soorajee Sumvut suppression of Infanticide Talooka tion Total Veerajee village دو وو
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Page 372 - It is a long time since I had the pleasure of hearing from you directly.
Page 329 - To render this deed if possible more horrible, the mother is commonly the executioner of her own offspring / Women of rank may have their slaves and attendants, who perform this office ; but the far greater number execute it with their own hands.
Page 364 - Perfume her., and adorn her, that I may carry her to her mothers ;" which being done, the father led her to a well or pit dug for that purpose, and having bid her to look down into it, pushed her in headlong, as he stood behind her, and then filling up the pit, levelled it with the rest of the ground : but others say, that when a woman was ready to fall in labour, they dug a pit, on the brink whereof she was to be delivered, and if the child happened to be a daughter, they threw it into the pit,...
Page 387 - (name of a particular place in hell) for as many years as there are hairs on the person of the said woman, after which, when he is born again, he would become a " Koreea " (leprous), and be subject to " Puksh Ghat
Page 532 - ... race distinct from its own, for suitors for the females. Foreign war, international feuds, or other calamities, affect tribes the most remote from each other; nor can war or famine thin the clans of Marwar, without diminishing the female population of Ambe'r: thus both suffer in a two-fold degree.
Page 450 - The rentcharges are payable on the 1st of January and the 1st of July in each year...
Page 355 - Brahmins ; that to put one child to death is as great a transgression against the divine laws, as to kill a hundred women, and that the perpetrators of this sin shall be damned to the hell...
Page 330 - The infant is invariably put to death immediately on its birth, and it would be considered a cruel and barbarous action to deprive it of life after it had been allowed to live a day or two.
Page 355 - Eswurjee was entirely successful, and on his return to camp, after expressing the reluctance of his master to set an example which might bring on him the reproach of his caste, a deed of the most solemn, effectual, and binding nature was executed, renouncing for ever the practice of Infanticide.
Page 328 - ... the father of the infant, and do as he directs. On this the women go to the father, who desires them to do as is customary, and so to inform the mother. The women then repair to the mother, and tell her to act in conformity to their usages. The mother next puts opium on the nipple of her breast, which the child, inhaling with its milk, dies. The above is one custom, and the following is another: when the child is born, they place the navel string on its mouth, when it expires...