Dowry Prohibition Law In India : Dowry Law  (Hardcover, Dr. Girish Chandra Rai)

Dowry the term is of great importance for the family of a girl in India. Dowry is one of the major reasons for increasing rate of female foeticide, violence on married women financial stress on the parents of a girl child, imbalance male-female ratio, broken marriages etc. in India. There are number of villages where if a girl child is born she was killed immediately by her own family. Dowry is basically an amount of property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage or in present context it may be called as payment of cash or valuable gifts from bride’s family to bridegroom upon marriage. Though the institution of dowry was present in pre-colonial period and it was managed by women, for women, to enable them to establish their status and have recourses in an emergency. All the valuables were given to bride not to groom or his family. The prohibition of property rights for women under the British Rule created the menace of dowry system in India. “Dowry” as a custom is deeply rooted in Indian society and cannot be completely eradicated. The main reason for not being able to eradicate this custom is the mentality, thoughts and way of thinking of the Indians. In India, boys are well-educated, so parents can demand dowry in marriage. The higher the education level of this person, the more stable his financial situation, the more dowries. This book focuses on the prohibition of Dowry in India. Dowry is the things or money in Cash or in kind which is given by bride by her family before, at or after marriage. We know the number of the offences relating to Dowry increasing day by day by demand of Dowry.