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of the widow marriage may object that widowers should not marry at all. I must answer at once to this objection that in this world it is impossible for widowers generally not to re-marry.
Re-marriage of Hindu widows would greatly prevent their losing the Hindu religion. I remember of an instance. A respectable old Khatri gentleman had an only son who died soon after his marriage. The young widowed daughter-in-law of this old man in order to re-marry herself became a Christian and thus entered into a second marriage. Another instance is to be found in a case (Abdul Aziz Khan versus Musammat Nirma) reported in 20 Indian Cases, page 335 (=I. L. R. 35 Allahabad, 466), It is a case decided by the Allahabad High Court and has been described with detailed particulars in Chapter V. There are other similar instances; and it is no use to describe them in detail.
