RE: "Mother India [a sensational book of the 1920’s criticizing India] was
simply an interesting phenomenon, a curious working of the human mind."
Katherine Mayo's 1927 book created a sensation on three continents...
Her book was burned in India along with an effigy of its author....
And yet, in 1929, the age of consent was raised (for married girls to 13,
for unmarried girls to 14 years of age). This may be a coincidence, but with
over fifty angry books and pamphlets published in response to Mother India,
Mayo had hit a nerve...
