Dowry

Dowry is derived from the ancient Hindu customs of ‘kanyadan’ and ‘stridhan’. In ‘kanyadan’, the father of the bride offers the father of the groom money or property, etc whereas for ‘stridhan’, the bride herself gets jewelry and clothes at the time of her marriage, usually from her relatives or friends. In Varadakshina’, the father of the bride presents the groom cash or kind. All of these could be done voluntarily and out of affection and love. The Hindu marriage system is sacramental. According

Theoretical Perspective on Dowry Deaths in India Objectives: a) To understand the concept of dowry as has originated and evolved in India. b) To conceptualize modern day consequences of dowry system. c) To refer to various laws in India and find out reasons for ineffectuality. d) To analyze the trend lay down in this regard by way of various judicial decisions. e) To critically analyze the reasons for divergence between the object of law with regard to dowry death and the practice

The three short stories that I read are called: “The Drunkard”, “A Dead Woman’s Secret”, and “The Dowry” by Guy de Maupassant. I wouldn’t consider these short story to be considerably different because these three short stories connect to each other in different ways. “The Drunkard” is similar to “A Dead Woman’s Secret” because they both have dead bodies occurring in the story. In the story, “The Drunkard” Jeremie ends up killing his own wife. In the story it states, “And, lifting the chair, which

A satirical website created in 2011 calculates the amount of dowry women need in order to marry the men of their choice. The website mocks India’s social evil, and it exposes some of the unhealthy factors families consider in order to arrive to “dowry rate.” Some of the factors are caste, education of the groom and even skin color. In India the custom of dowry is a very old tradition that originated in the 13th or 14th century, when women were not given any share from paternal wealth and when women

Queen Matilda of England brought to the marriage table a dowry of estates. While, she did not grant William great wealth, she did possess great wealth of her own. Roughly one fourth of the wealth of Matilda and William belonged to Matilda. She presented her husband with the ship the Mora as a symbol of her approval of his conquest of England. Matilda, being well educated and capable, served as regent of Normandy while her husband was away in England. Matilda made the journey to England in 1068

Masculinity as we are all aware generally means that a man is the breadwinner, decision-maker of the house and he is expected to be like this and this kind of masculinity is helpful to control and have power over the other family members. On the other hand, innocence, submissive, and obedience have a huge part to play in the construction of the Indian woman. Indian women are expected to be dependent on the male partner to provide for their needs. This difference between man and women allows masculinity

girls are traded for a form of dowry (“Rastogi”, 2006). The dowry would serve as compensation to the bride’s father for the loose of control and labour of his daughter after marriage (“Rastogi”, 2006). Essentially, the female is treated as property. This ritual considered to a grooms entitlement, and has been largely linked to the oppression, abuse, and violence against females (“Rastogi”, 2006). Yet it is not uncommon for the groom’s family to be unsatisfied with the dowry, especially at times if it

It is because of masculinity, society fosters gender inequality and gender-based violence against women. It cannot be said that Indian men represent a homogenous group in society, nor all experiences masculinity at same time but men most probably either identify or engage with the masculinity on some level as it is deep rooted in them. Although masculinity has the ability to go wrong social and cultural boundaries, particular manifestations and expressions of it become specific to places due to factors

estimated to be missing from the Indian population , a study done by Harvard economist Amartya. Has no one stopped to question, why is there so many women missing from the Indian population? There has been a strong rooted tradition in India known as Dowry , a tradition where the father presents his daughter as a gift to her new husband and family when presented in marriage. This tradition is still being practiced today , but do to modernization a lot has changed with this practice. Women in India have

Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks of honor killings and forced marriages in Middle Eastern society in the The AHA Foundation 2nd Annual Conference. She begins with describing her personal situation when she was younger; her arranged marriage to a relative and then her escape to the Netherlands at the age of twenty-two in an effort to avoid this marriage where she was met with an entirely different culture where the pressure of the honor of the family was not forced upon females by both female and male parties