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Why would anyone from Japan be in Northern India in early 1900s?
I am trying to write a fictional history novel.
Can someone tell me why a young man from a wealthy, samurai family from Japan would be in Northern India in the early 1900s (after WW1, before WWII).
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Did Muslim women in colonial India before 1939 have to become Christian to divorce?
Muslim Law in India in 1939 did not accept a women's right to divorce before the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act, 1939.
Prior to the enactment of this Act, 1939 (DMMA), conversion of either spouse ...