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( 15 ) the Government of the country. The Nobles also limited themselves to a single wife whom he made the partner of his cares and joys and treated with respect and affection. Matrimony in Sumer was also based on monogamy. The head of the family was father. If his son married a second wife, his family was censured and he had to pay damages. Polygamy was prohibited. We have no written records for this period in Bhārata but the original inhabitants of Bhārata who took with them the monogamous system of marriage to Sumer and Egypt could not but have this system in their own home. The monogamous matrimony of Rāma and Sītā is a pointer to the marital custom of Bhārata in that period. The events of the life of Rāma belong to the pre-Aryan pre-Dravidian proto.Australoid Age."
There might have been a small class of domestic servants but slavery as such was non-existent. Education was considered to be of great importance and the children went to the boarding school at any age. People enjoyed common pastime. The spirit of unity and equality pervaded the social atmosphere.
References
1. G. Rawlinson ; op. cit.; Vol. I page 439. 2. V. Gordon Childe ; op. cit., page 114. 3. M. Wheeler ; op. cit., page 38 to 40. 4. M. A. Murray; The splendour that was Egypt; 1959; page 97. 5. Leonard Woolley ; Excavations at Ur ; 1955 page 49. f. Bendapudi Subbarao ; The personality of India ; 1:58: page 37. 7. M. A. Murray; op. cit., page 101-104. 8. L. Woollcy; op. cit ; page 31 Plate No. Il facing page 37. 9. E. Herzfeld ; Iran in the Ancient East, pages 11, 177. 10. G. Rawlinson ; op. cit. ; vol. I pages 534, 539, 552, vol. II page 321. 11. S. Moscati ; The Face of the Ancient Orients ; 1960; pages 47, 37. 12. S. K. Chatterji; Chapter VIII in Vedic Age, 1957, page 165,
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