The tragic story of Vismaya Nair was brought to a conclusion by a court in Southern India, which yesterday sentenced her husband, Kiran Kumar, to ten years in prison for hounding her to her death by suicide.
India’s dowry system originated thousands of years ago, at a time when women could not inherit property. Parents who wanted to provide financial security for their daughters, who would otherwise end up penniless, bestowed a dowry to them when they got married. This gift of property, jewellery or other assets would be registered in the … Read more
Marriage wealth-exchange practices are strongly influenced by the economic modes of production (foraging, horticulture, pastoralism or intensive agriculture) of the society, the resulting relations of production and the possibility of wealth accumulation.
