Breaking tradition, India's child brides fight for freedom
Meghwal was only 11 months-old when her elders married her to a nine-year-old boy from a neighbouring village in the desert state of Rajasthan, where rates of child marriages have long been high.
(AFP) University student Santadevi Meghwal has been threatened, harassed, ostracised and even fined by a council of male elders in her village in India.
But the 20-year-old is determined to push ahead with annulling her child marriage, and join a small but growing number of youngsters in northern India rejecting the ancient tradition.
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