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In India, dowry is called Dahez in Hindi. [79] In far eastern parts of India, dowry is called Aaunnpot. Dowry is a payment of cash or gifts from the bride's family to the bridegroom's family upon arranged marriage. It may include cash, jewelry, electrical appliances, furniture, bedding, crockery, utensils, car and other household items that ...
A marriage settlement was a means of ensuring the proper use of a dowry provided by a bride's father to be used for his daughter's financial support throughout her married life and into her widowhood, and also a means by which the bride's father was able to obtain from the bridegroom's father a financial commitment to the intended marriage and to the children resulting therefrom.
The dowry system in India [1] refers to the durable goods, cash, and real or movable property that the bride's family gives to the groom, his parents and his relatives as a condition of the marriage. [2] [3] Dowry is called "दहेज" in Hindi and as جہیز in Urdu. [4] The dowry system can put great financial burden on the bride's family ...
The Indian author Rajesh Talwar has written a play on dowry deaths titled The Bride Who Would Not Burn. [12] In 1961, the government of India passed the Dowry Prohibition Act, making the dowry demands in wedding arrangements illegal. [13] In 1986, the Indian Parliament added dowry deaths as a new domestic violence crime. According to the new ...
The dowry system in India is another reason that is given for female infanticide. Although India has taken steps to abolish the dowry system, [61] the practice persists. Still female infanticide and gender-selective abortion is attributed to the fear of being unable to raise a suitable dowry and then being socially ostracised. [62]
During British rule, the practice of female infanticide in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu among the Kallars and the Todas was reported. More recently in June 1986, it was reported by India Today in a cover story Born to Die that female infanticide was still in practice in Usilampatti in southern Tamil Nadu.
All people must realize that both demanding and giving dowry are wrong and they must boldly declare this when occasion arises." [45] Periyar calls the dowry an evil and exploitative practice depriving tens of thousands of talented and beautiful young women with sound character remaining spinsters without any chance of getting married. [46]
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a Brahmin and a Sanskrit scholar was the most prominent campaigner of widow remarriage.He petitioned the Legislative council, [11] but there was a counter petition against the proposal with nearly four times more signatures by Radhakanta Deb and the Dharma Sabha.