Tales Of Destiny

During to-day's discussion, in the spirit of tolerance that Akbar teaches to all of us, we Rajputs have had to harken to severe upbraiding. We are accused of inhumanity because in our homes a female child may be done away with at birth, lawfully and without dishonour. Be it so; the fact itself I shall not dispute. Nor shall I defend the practice except to point out that a woman more or less in the world does not matter, that the babe suffers no pain and knows no ill, that had she lived it might have been to a life of widowhood-if courage were wanting to choose the suttee-and therefore to long days of shame and sorrow. Furthermore, has it to be remembered that the marriage of one of our daughters costs much money.

• • Author: Edmund Mitchell
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Mar 25, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 124 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1544682557
• • ISBN-13: 9781544682556