text: Egalitarian and agnostic , Nehru passed laws against the injustice of the caste system , child-marriage , and the treatment of women in Hindu households , but century-old customs die before his death in 1964 , he asked that his ashes be scattered in the Yamuna river at Delhi and the Ganga at Allahabad , and without ritual .
  
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  Child marriage still exists today .