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Dowry System

The dowry system in India involves the transfer of gifts or money from the bride's family to the groom's family, often leading to social issues such as violence and discrimination against women. It is influenced by traditions, kinship structures, and a shortage of eligible men for marriage, resulting in serious consequences like bride burning and female infanticide. Legal measures, such as the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, have been implemented to combat domestic violence and protect women's rights.

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Dowry System

The dowry system in India involves the transfer of gifts or money from the bride's family to the groom's family, often leading to social issues such as violence and discrimination against women. It is influenced by traditions, kinship structures, and a shortage of eligible men for marriage, resulting in serious consequences like bride burning and female infanticide. Legal measures, such as the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, have been implemented to combat domestic violence and protect women's rights.

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Social factors

Social changes across time have contributed to


the modern dowry system in India. Some of the
social factors influencing dowry include
tradition, increased women’s rights, and the
“marriage squeeze”, which is the shortage of
eligible men for marriage.
Tradition is certainly one explanation given by
scholars to address the prevailing dowry
system. One aspect of this is the structure and
kinship of marriage in parts of India. In the
north, marriage usually follows a patrilocal (lives
with husband’s family) system, where the
groom is a non-related member of the family.
This system encourages dowry perhaps due to
the exclusion of the bride's family after
marriage as a form of premortem inheritance
for the bride. In the south, marriage is more
often conducted within the bride's family, for
example with close relatives or cross-cousins,
and in a closer physical distance to her family.
In addition, brides may have the ability to
inherit land, which makes her more valuable in
the marriage, decreasing the chance of dowry
over the bride price system.
Murder

• The system of dowry has also been linked to murder of young


brides.Physical abuses described above can also result in murder.
These murders can arise due to the financial demands from a husband,
or dissatisfaction of the bride from the groom’s family.In addition, the
concept of “Bride Burning” refers to the sacrificial murder of a bride
who is unsatisfactory to her husband in the form of dowryIn these
cases, the woman is considered a sacrifice to her husband due to her
inadequacy, and is glorified as an honorable woman. These cases
reinforce the structured violence against women, while glorified as
being “purer or more sacred than a dowry death”. [In addition to bride
murder, the institution of dowry may also reinforce
sex-selective abortion and female infanticide.[14] Due to the social and
economic burdens of dowry, families may choose boys over girls, so
that they avoid consequences of the system. This then may strengthen
gendered violence and preferential male treatment in society.
• There are laws like
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 that help to
reduce domestic violence and to protect women's rights.
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