Ratna is only eleven years old and the narrator trys to fix her for ranga's marriage ? Does this story support child marriage ?

This story is set in the times when girls were married off really early, as soon as they reached puberty which could well be ten or eleven years of age. The story shows the picture of a society which considered marriage as the fundamental building block of society and girls as young as Ratna were married off early. This story neither advocates child marriage nor is child marriage at the center of the story, the main focus is on the picture of society as it was.

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