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Indian dowry payments remarkably stable, study says


BBC News
By Soutik Biswas
image captionOver 90% of couples live with the husband s family after marriage in India
Dowry payments in India s villages have been largely stable over the past few decades, a World Bank study has found.
Researchers looked at 40,000 marriages that took place in rural India between 1960 and 2008.
They found that dowry was paid in 95% of the marriages even though it s been illegal in India since 1961.
The practice, often described as a social evil, continues to thrive and leaves women vulnerable to domestic violence and even death.
Paying and accepting dowry is a centuries-old tradition in South Asia where the bride s parents gift cash, clothes and jewellery to the groom s family. ....

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