Now that the moment of celebration is over, the snark returns. Read this nonsense from a SOM editorial on child marriages. Let me quote the relevant lines since SOM doesn’t do archive.
District In-charge Minister Shobha Karandlaje promised on Friday that a probe would be initiated into child marriage in the State. The matter has larger ramification.
The origin of child marriages in India is traced to the era of Muslim, Moghul invasions over the land. The invaders raped unmarried local girls and even carried them as booty according to history or mere claims. Some say it existed even before Muslim invasion all over India. The parents are said to have adopted the practice of child marriage to protect them. But, such threats do not exist any more. Some issues arise. (highlighting mine)
I am a professional historian and let me say as clearly as I can. While SOM’s speculative history appeals to our common sense, it is flat out baseless, and wrong. We simply do not know. The writing here is so sloppy and imprecise, perhaps deliberately so, since the language of insinuations and innuendo has to have that character. The language of editorials cannot sink so low.
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