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Mohandas married as a young teenager in an arranged affair according to Hindu tradition (1882). He was only 13 years old. His wife was Kasturbai who was the same age. Marriages wrre not commonly consumated at that age. Rather for the young people involved it meant feasts and fancy new clothes. Also it meant that Mohandas had a new rather docile companion. As an adult he would repeatedly condemned the custom , referring to it as a 'cruel custom'. In his autobiography he tells about the turmoil it brought to his life. 【Gandhi】 He descrived the instructions he and his wife had received to consummate the marriage on their wedding night, and the thoughts that distracted him even while he was in class, as he waited to be with his new wife.
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand. The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
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