Dowry is a Serious Violence: Rethinking Dowry law in India

Download or read book Dowry is a Serious Violence: Rethinking Dowry law in India written by Adv Dr Shalu Nigam and published by Shalu Nigam . This book was released on 2023-05-13 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the prevailing practices of dowry, its mechanisms, and the dowry laws as they exist in India. It argues that the practice of dowry is evolving in the commercialized neoliberal while the law has failed to keep pace with the socio-economic changes. Dowry, as it is practiced today, involves gruesome forms of economic violence, including extortion, blackmail, and exploitation of women and their families. The current legal framework ignores this triad of oppression consisting of compulsive, arbitrary dowry demands, coercion, and dowry-related violence, and therefore, it suggests rethinking the socio-legal discourse surrounding dowry in India.