Dowry System in India: A Case Study

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The tendency of dowry in India varies from country to country. Over the past few decades, people have observed the transition from bride's price system to dowry system. There, wealth flows from the groom to the bride's family, and wealth flows in the opposite direction. According to the survey, the southern Indian region has traditionally adopted the bride price system even in the upper class. In the north, the social differences in marriage lead to the upper class dowry system, but at a lower level the price of the bride will become more common.

Dowry is a custom in India where bride's family transfers wealth to the groom, and in many cases this is the marriage requirement and condition of the groom's family. The dowry is in all religious beliefs in India and the number of dowries required by the bride's family is related to the age of the girl. Nagi proposed in 1993 that dowry practices avoid the delayed marriage and produce fear and pressure to encourage early marriage. In some parts of India, the existence of Muslim personal law is the cause of child marriage. For example, in Kerala, 3,400 girls aged 13 to 18 married in Malapram district in 2012. Of these, 2,800 are Muslims (82%). The Indian alliance Muslim Federation and other Islamic organizations protested in the court, allegedly tried to stop this practice from the court and that the minimum marriage age of Muslim girls would be challenged by their religious rights .

The dowry system in India refers to the bride's family as a durable good for marriage, cash, and real estate or movables to the groom, their parents, or their relatives. The dowry comes from Indian distorted inheritance law and demands revision of Hinduism's succession law to prevent daughter's daily inheritance. Dowry fundamentally has the nature of cash payment, or groom's family including cash, jewelry, appliances, furniture, bedding, cutlery, cutlery and other household items that can help set up the bride and groom The gift of the bride to. Their dowry is Arabic and is called Dahez (Muslim jahez-e-fatimi). In the Far East of India, the dowry is called Aaunnpot.