in 1917, the first women's delegation met the secretary of state to demand women's political rights, supported by the indian national congress. the all india women's education conference was held in pune in 1927, it became a major organisation in the movement for social change. in 1929, the child marriage restraint act was passed, stipulating fourteen as the minimum age of marriage for a girl. mahatma gandhi, himself a victim of child marriage at the age of thirteen, he later urged people to boycott child marriages and called upon young men to marry child widows.