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LeftInTX

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29. Since they were 18/19, it would be legal here.

Reply to ExciteBike66 (Reply #28)

Mon Feb 26, 2024, 02:03 PM

Feb 2024

I really don't know the story. It seems muddled. Who knows what the age of consent in British India was back then? It was British, but they allowed very young child marriage, so who knows? I'm sure the Brits had morality police/vice units but would they really want to arrest him when they allowed alot of other stuff?

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