What are some of the features of Indian Family Life, as noticed by Buck?
Ans. The maturing culture of an organised human family life and profound
philosophical religions had shaped his mind and soul, even though he could not
read and write. And the children, the little children of the Indian villages, how
they tore of my heart, thin, big belived, and all with huge sad dark eyes I
wondered that any Englishmen could look at them and not accuse himself. Three
hundred years of English occupation and rule and could there be children like
this ? Yes, and Millions of them! And the final indictment surely was that the life
span in India was only twenty-seven years. Twenty-seven years ! No wonder.
Then, that life was hastened, that a men married very young so that there could
be children, as many as possible, before he died.
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