পাতা:তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিকা (অষ্টম কল্প দ্বিতীয় খণ্ড).pdf/৩৯

"THE CIVII, MARRIAGE BILI. כל סא கண்க கக _ _ محے- === ء sیپیے . . latter delivered his opinion, has not hitherto seen the light. It is to be apprehended that IBaboo Kosubch under Sen did not, in that statement, furníslı the Advocate General with the inforina · tion that the rites, deemed essentially necessary by orthodox IIindus io consti tute marriage, llave been preserved IIl what could be properly called Brahmo marriages The doubts alluded to above arising in his mind, Baboo Kesubcllunder Sen called a meeting of the Brahmo Samaj to which all Prohinos were not invited. Isaboos 1}ebendranath Tagore, Kesulchunder Sen, Doorgamohun {}oss and some other gentlemen were appointed at 1 litit, nic eting a8 a „ius,. to, determino the propriety o! į piy ng to (;overnment for a legislative „„„um, ut om, tlw subject of l5ralino ıı.ıı riages. Baboo i)ebendranatlı de„hned to act on such committee, think 'ክg { hო unetting ፧ህo W} { \\ pi openly repre...nting the Brahim'. community. .\t )} \ }3{ t t! : of tle so-calledי 1יי 1 ; it t iן יין !! ıııo S,, ni 11 on the sıılıject, ti... 1, ;n » t of the comunit fee was read. It appeo" - wd that the members of the commit to. diesel . 1 x noch so steht oth in tlueil tła, propi let y applying to Government to" a legt»l.l opiniott a lo sud, tive nactment. It was at last resolved t!iat no propositiou be made to ( lov “rn ment w thout inviting the ohuition ol the 13rahmo public at large on the subject. Huboo Kesubchunder did not, how ever, at according to this lesolution, but individually submitted it Ineluorial to ( ;overnment as the self styled representative of the IBrahmo community for a Brahma marriage iaw. Mr. Henry Sumner Maine, the then Legislative Member of the Imperial Council, believing such a measure to be uecessary for not only Brahmos but an increasing class of educated natives who were unwilling to contract asim ն:Ա marriages according to the old idola’. trous form, introduced into the l mperial legislative Council in September 1868 a sill entitled “A Bill to legaliz, marriages between persons not profess. ing the Christian Religion and object. ing to marry according to the orthodox rites of any of the existing religions of India" but this bill called forth a most violent opposition, all the native jour mals of the country denouncing it in imme: sured terms. The Adi Ibrahmo *indi also submitted a petition to Go. vernment "presenting that, as the principal intention of Government in passing the bili was to give relief to Brahnos, they need not pass it at all,as the Hindu Shastrus and the general lisagt' of the country, especially that prevail ing antong heterodox Hindu sorts,gave suflicient sanction to Brahino nuarriages They also, as members of the general Indian community, foil it their ditty to point out in their petition the evil thai i.in to fi, an consequences would lesult to the i le ᎢᏧ1e ili po 1 ::Il ( iov en rı tııı ·n! “ommunity at of the F3ill to k the view < * }} all the ocal { overn passing ments on the sniject. hut they on, aust all on e their opinion the the passing o' th. I'll w out! ca's great dissotisfac. † 'nn annong a !! i l' ••• •• ••ï'ıłı, ' eoııımıunivy . | 1, wits, then xpert d l'at the measuri would łys · nt · tev .lı · qqıvı! :und no l.uw Pass d at #1 on the siliject, when, on the .29th \l arch the Adi löi ithino Sania] eame suddenly | S7 , the members of to know that the name of the said bill Ilas been altered to “A Hill to legalize marriages between the metmbers of the Seet called the Brahma Samaj"and that it would be pissed into law the next day. Now as the passing of the bill in the new form would have separated the Brahmio Samaj from the Hindu community, converting it into a sect totally estranged from that community