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This pioneer volume is written with such ability and is of such apparent significance as an indication of the awakening of Orientals to a more rational attitude, that it merits special attention. Mr. Wattal begins his book by a plea to his fellow-countrymen to look at the problem rationally and without prejudice.
In fact, the only case that I know of where an Eastern thinker has boldly faced the problem and has courageously advocated birth-control is in the book published five years ago by P. K. Wattal, a native official of the Indian Finance Department, entitled, The Population Problem of India.
According to the census of 1911 the population was 315,000,000. Cromer, "Some Problems of Government in Europe and Asia," Nineteenth Century and After, May, 1913. P. K. Wattal, of the Indian Finance Department, Assistant Accountant-General. The book was published at Bombay, 1916. Wattal, pp. i-iii. Wattal, p. 3. Ibid., p. 12. Wattal, p. 14. Ibid., pp. 19-21. Wattal, p. 28. Ibid., p. 82.
Wattal then describes the cruel items in India's death-rate; the tremendous female mortality, due largely to too early childbirth, and the equally terrible infant mortality, nearly 50 per cent. of infant deaths being due to premature birth or debility at birth. These are the inevitable penalties of early and universal marriage.
After this appeal to reason in his readers, Mr. Wattal develops his thesis. The first prime cause of over-population in India, he asserts, is early marriage.
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