DR. AMBEDKAR AND THE HINDU CODE BILL 869
death, the question will be : “ Let us see how we evaluate the property of the father”. The property will be evaluated and the sons will not have sufficient funds to buy off the daughter’s share and trouble will ensue. I am speaking from my experience as a lawyer for more than forty years.
Pandit Krishna Chandra Sharma : You have been working in the criminal courts.
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Hon. Members will address the Chair.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : I for one have very great regard for my friend, who is also a criminal lawyer. All the same, my notions of a criminal lawyer are quite different from his. I have been practising on the criminal side as well as the civil side, but I take pride in the fact that I am a criminal lawyer. At the same time, I do not go about with my eyes shut. If a criminal lawyer is true to the description which my friend has in mind, he should know what is passing on in society. As a criminal lawyer, my friend should know what is passing on in and around Meerut, and when I am speaking about Meerut—I do not know what my friend’s personal notions are—I know the conditions in Meerut and I know also that they are not very different from the conditions in Hissar and Rohtak. Therefore, when I speak for Punjab, I also speak for my Friend and Meerut side, because in olden times Meerut was a part of this side of the Punjab.
Pandit Krishna Chandra Sharma : For my friend’s information, I may say that Hissar is famous for bulls while Meerut is famous for cows.
Shri Tyagi : May I know what have bulls and cows to do with the Hindu Code ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Hindu Code relates to marriage, you see.
Shri Raj Bahadur : May I know whether cock and bull story is permitted in the House ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : Order please.
Pandit Thakur Das Bhargava : When you refer to the question of marriage, I must submit that the introduction of the principles of civil marriage in this Hindu Code is another point which must be considered specially by this House. If this is a Hindu Code, why bring in the civil marriage ? I want that the provisions in regard to marriage may remain as they are. There is no use repeating them here. If you want to make a Hindu Code which will not apply to other people