The history of dowry system in India is not so clear and various scholars have difference of opinion. One thing we can notice here is that in the modern India also we could find the evil of dowry system. The only way through which we can change the society is only by giving the ...
FrontierVol.44,Nos.11-14,Sep25-Oct22,2011OLDCUSTOM,NEWTWISTUnderstandingtheDowryEvilPranjaliBandhu[ThescourgeofdowryhasnowpercolatedtoalmostallsectionsofsocietyandregionsinIndia.Itistobefoundamongsttheworkingclassaswellasthebourgeoisie;amongsttheHindusaswellastheMuslimsandChristians;amongtheBrahmins,theDalits,and...
Due to its high prevalence, domestic violence is probably the most difficult crime to avoid in India. Both Sati and Dowries deaths lead to a murder, and therefore are becoming more and more broadly condemned by people. Whereas 41% of women considered that husbands were justified in hitting ...
that dowry practices were not an outgrowth of tradition, that modernization simply failed toremedy, rather dowry has been institutionalized by processes like globalization and colonization themselves and has resulted in a gender stratified marriage system with negative consequences for women in India.Abhila...