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  2. Bride buying in India - Wikipedia

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    Haryana, one of the wealthiest states in India with the third-highest per capita income in 2014-2015 [32] of 147,076 rupees (USD 2,293), is a destination state for the molki brides. [7] An unintended consequence of Haryana's economic development is the advancement of medical technology and accessibility of its health care system which offer ...

  3. India - Wikipedia

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    India, officially the Republic of India, [j] [21] is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area ; the most populous country from June 2023 onwards; [ 22 ] [ 23 ] and since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy.

  4. List of states and union territories of India by sex ratio

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    Sex ratio is used to describe the ratio of females to males in a population. In India, the sex ratio has been estimated via a number of methods and data sets including the decennial censuses, the National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), the Civil Registration System, the Sample Registration System and the Health Management Information System. [5]

  5. File:Acts of the Parliament of India 1958.pdf - Wikipedia

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    The decision of the Supreme Court of India in "Eastern Book Company & Ors vs D.B. Modak & Anr" on 12 December, 2007 interpreted this section of the Act as making the material public domain. This work is also in the public domain in the U.S.A. because it is an edict of a government , local or foreign.

  6. Forced prostitution - Wikipedia

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    In Southern India & eastern Indian state of Odisha, devadasi is the practice of hierodulic prostitution, with similar customary forms such as basavi, [72] and involves dedicating pre-pubescent and young adolescent girls from villages in a ritual marriage to a deity or a temple, who then work in the temple and function as spiritual guides ...

  7. File:Constitution of India (9 Sep 2020).pdf - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on en.wikisource.org Index:Constitution of India (9 Sep 2020).pdf; Page:Constitution of India (9 Sep 2020).pdf/11

  8. File:Our Girls.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Short title: Our girls; their work for the war, by Hall Caine; with 15 illustrations from photographs by the Ministry of munitions. Author: Caine, Hall, Sir, 1853-1931.

  9. List of ministries and departments of the Government of India

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    The Government of India exercises its executive authority through a number of government ministries or departments of state. A ministry is composed of employed officials, known as civil servants, and is politically accountable through a minister . Most major ministries are headed by a Cabinet Minister, who sits in the Union Council of Ministers ...