1905 August 8th, The Times, № 37,780, “Women and Early Marriage”, page 6/1:
Only last week a paper on the question of early marriage in India was read by a young Sikh Sirdar of Kapurthala, in which this supremely important and delicate subject was treated with a tact and frankness which did him the utmost credit. The chairman, Sir Lepel Griffin, after making some sympathetic remarks, wisely, and with the concurrence of Englishmen who would have been glad to speak on the subject, confined the discussion which followed to some of the many Indians who were present, and who could speak with an authority and a practical knowledge which no foreigner could claim on such a subject.
