The 1884 legal case involving Rakhmabai, who refused to cohabit with the husband she had been married to as a child, primarily became a landmark in the debate over which one of the following?

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B. The age of consent and a wife's restitution of conjugal rights. Rakhmabai's refusal to live with the man she had been married to as a child led to a prolonged court battle over the restitution of conjugal rights, and the public debate it triggered fed directly into the movement that produced the Age of Consent Act, 1891, raising the minimum age for consummation of marriage. It was not primarily a case about women's education, widows' property rights, or the devadasi system, ruling out the other options. Hence option B correctly identifies what the case was actually about.

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A. The right of women to receive formal education

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B. The age of consent and a wife's restitution of conjugal rights

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C. Property rights of widows under Hindu law

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D. The abolition of the devadasi system