The Constitution of India guaranteed formal equality and radical social reforms, forbidding child marriage (below the age of 18 for a girl), legalizing remarriage of widows and providing equal share to women in the joint family, property under the Inheritance Act, introducing important deviations from the traditional fabric in the Indian social structure. But the laws did not succeed to change attitudes, and the prevailing societal mindset towards women is still conditioned by religious symbolism which highlights the self-sacrificing, self-effacing pure image of women and a woman as a faithful wife and devout mother. Subservience of women is summed up in Manu’s code, where it is stated that a woman should never be independent. Choose the correct option. (1 Mark) Child marriage is below the age of? OPTIONS 1. 5 2. 9 3. 14 4. All the options are correct