Dowry death is the unnatural death of women who are either murdered or driven to suicide through continuous torture or harassment by their husbands or his family in an attempt to extort dowry. Dowry is a sum of money as well as other material things given by the bride’s family to the groom’s family. these […]
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DOWRY AND INDIA
“Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and DISHONOURS WOMANHOOD” Mahatma GandhiThe custom which initiated as an effort of the parents to ensure the financial stability of their daughter in a patriarchal society has now translated into a means to assure the life of their daughter […]