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Ihis *This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2001-10/1003835376 thread] discusses under age marriage. *The following letter from Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, written in 1826 to the Archbishop of Canterbury sets out the situation applying to Army soldiers and permission to marry. In Church records of marriages, marriage is by licence or by banns. In India, at least in this period, marriage by banns included marriage under the conditions mentioned by Bishop Heber. From ''Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825; (With notes upon Ceylon,) an Account of a journey to Madras and the southern provinces, 1826, and letters written in India, Volume 2'' [http://books.google.com/books?id=FwRFAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA251 Page 251] Google Books
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==Marriage==
==Life in the Bungalows==