Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — Men's Bights in Bengal. [ARTICLE]

Men's Bights in Bengal.

Man asks for protection against mercenary woman in Bengal. Babu Rasik Lai Roy wants the government to help him to suppress the excessive expense of Hindu marriages, and especially the dowry of the brides, as “the temptation of selling the son to the highest bidder has become too great to be resisted.”