22 OCTOBER 1927, Page 35

That Indians are by no means unaware of the gross

faults in their social code, so arrestingly described by Miss Mayo. is evident from The Sex Problem in Indio, by Professor ,N7 S. Ilhadke, which we have just received from Messrs. Tarapore- Vala (price Rs. 6). Mr. Phadke says much what Drs. Marie Stopes and Norman Haire-are saying in the West, but he says it with an eye to India, quoting his sacred texts and explaining: the futility of insisting on marrying outside the gotra (clan) when that gotra is separated by some seven hundred generations from its original rishi. He quotes Aryan texts to support his claim that sixteen is the lowest age at which a Hindu girl

should marry.