An Analysis of the Dowry System in India: Causes and RemediesRamachandra N.UDeepthi RadhakrishnaJETIR(www.jetir.org)
Suicide is a worldwide issue, with 703,000 people taking their own lives annually, according to the World Health Organization [1]. This problem is particularly severe in low-income and middle-income countries like Bangladesh, where 77% of all suicides occur [1]. It is worrying to note that...
The paper investigates whether past declines in mortality could have created a huge deficit of eligible men in the marriage market, and whether the ensuing competition for mates could be responsible for the coercive character the dowry system of marriage has assumed in India. New indices have been...
According to Kabeer (2014), the nature of the relationship between intimate partners can also make a difference, with higher levels of violence associated with cohabitation than with formal unions, polygamous rather than monogamous marriages, and the payment of dowry in societies where these ...
significant cause for Asian women [5,19]. It is a fact that being married is not always a protective factor against female suicide in Asian families [5]. In his study, Vijayakumar et al. show that in India, dowry disputes are thought to be the cause of 98.7% of female suicides [22]...