A 10-Year-Old Was Raped to Death on Her Wedding Night by Her 30-Years-Old Husband
And it changed the history of consent laws forever
Phulmoni Dasi was a ten-year-old Indian girl who died on the first night (after having sexual intercourse with her husband) after her marriage to a 30-year-old man called Hari Mohan Mait in 1889. India remembers this dark incident of the colonial era as The Phulmoni Dasi Rape Case.
Once this case came to light, it triggered several legal reforms and opened gates into communication around the subsequent legal age of marriage, age of consent, and even marital rape.
It took a brutal rape following death (or, as I may dare to say, murder ) of an innocent girl for the long asleep system and society to wake up and change something which should never have been a discussion in the first place.
Timeline of Events
Phulmoni Dasi was a Bengali girl living in the Eastern region of India. She was married off to her 30-year-old husband in an arranged marriage by the will of her parents, and later the young child-wife died after her husband tried to consummate their marriage.
